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š• keeps growing
X ^ | 10/18/2026 | X Freeze

Posted on 10/18/2026 9:29:42 AM PDT by SmokingJoe

š• keeps growing

š• recorded 13.43 BILLION website visits in Q3 2026, up from 12.67 billion in Q2, per Similarweb

• 13.43B total visits • +6% quarter-over-quarter growth • +760M additional visits in a single quarter

š• continues to grow as it evolves into much more than a social platform, with SI, payments, creators, video and real-time news all coming together in one ecosystem


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Musk is firing on all cylinders.
1 posted on 10/18/2026 9:29:42 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
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https://www.techrepublic.com/article/news-twitter-now-x-trademark-fight-2026/

A Startup Brought Back ā€˜Twitter’ — Now X Is Suing

Operation Bluebird has launched Twitter.now while fighting X over rights to the Twitter name, betting nostalgia and AI tools can build a new social network.


2 posted on 10/18/2026 9:33:12 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple ((Thinking Caps are no longer being issued, but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere))
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To: SmokingJoe

Musk is getting the last laugh.


3 posted on 10/18/2026 9:38:34 AM PDT by Jonty30 (Male simping and female promiscuity is the same thing. Resources without reciprocation.)
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13.43 billion visits in Q3, up from 12.67 billion, so about 760 million more in one quarter. +6% is a solid jump for a platform plenty of people predicted would shrink. Usage is the scoreboard that matters.

https://x.com/2ndson1985/status/2111825691289530677

4 posted on 10/18/2026 9:38:56 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
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It makes about 3% profit, according to Grok.

If it was paid off, that would be an ok amount to make.


5 posted on 10/18/2026 9:41:41 AM PDT by Jonty30 (Male simping and female promiscuity is the same thing. Resources without reciprocation.)
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Yep.
Remember when legacy media kept predicting X was finished after all these big companies pulled their ads?


6 posted on 10/18/2026 9:42:13 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: Jonty30

It makes about 3% profit, according to Grok.

If it was paid off, that would be an ok amount to make.


it depends on leverage.


7 posted on 10/18/2026 9:44:20 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple ((Thinking Caps are no longer being issued, but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere))
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I wish I could be reinstated.

I was made so I cannot post. No reason given.
I suspect AI

I know other conservatives who also said the same happened.


8 posted on 10/18/2026 9:44:39 AM PDT by Chickensoup
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I know what he wants to do with it. It’s a nexus point to everything that he envisions to be, which includes possible banking and everything.

A legal version of the Dark Web, effectively.

However, as a standalone product, it’s doing ok. X costs very little in maintenance.


9 posted on 10/18/2026 9:48:12 AM PDT by Jonty30 (Male simping and female promiscuity is the same thing. Resources without reciprocation.)
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It’s my understanding that you can no longer take a look at comments and articles on X without paying for a membership first. Too bad. I used to enjoy looking at what was said.
Not saying I won’t ever pay for membership, just not now.


10 posted on 10/18/2026 9:54:59 AM PDT by lee martell
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True but I’ve also seen so many characters getting on there and discouraging people from voting. For a while it was gas prices are too high and Trump hasn’t done anything. He said he would so I’m voting Democrat and I encourage you to do so as well. everything he’s done is a lie, blah blah blah.
Now it’s all the big campaign about Trump is a Russia, Russia, Russia agent they always knew it and now he’s proving it because he wants to take away the sanctions on Russia. I just write back to them and say he didn’t read the bill did you? I don’t know if they bought or not but a lot of them are senators and politicians of other sorts. Mike Pence, Croniyn, Tillis, Cassidy, all those folks, Don, Bacon, and on and on and on.


11 posted on 10/18/2026 9:57:27 AM PDT by tinamina (Remember when Biden said ā€œwe have developed the most sophisticated voting fraud system everā€)
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Ai does not understand hyperbole, metaphors, sarcasm, figures of speech in general.


12 posted on 10/18/2026 9:57:59 AM PDT by spintreebob
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“It’s my understanding that you can no longer take a look at comments and articles on X without paying for a membership first”

Wrong!


13 posted on 10/18/2026 10:00:28 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
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Great; but we need still more options. Depending too much on Musk is no better than depending too much on Murdoch and his lefty sons.


14 posted on 10/18/2026 10:04:43 AM PDT by Socon-Econ (adi)
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“Ai does not understand hyperbole, metaphors, sarcasm, figures of speech in general.”

all AI search engines just scrape what’s on the internet, and since most sites have banned conservative comment, all they find is leftist lies, which they then formulate into natural language and present as “THE TRUTH” ...


15 posted on 10/18/2026 10:05:42 AM PDT by catnipman ((A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil))
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Elon Musk is all we have at the moment.

Remember they were able to shut down Parler after 1/6?

16 posted on 10/18/2026 10:06:07 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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Oh. really? Maybe I’ll try again in a few days.


17 posted on 10/18/2026 10:11:03 AM PDT by lee martell
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To: tinamina

Plenty of far left crazies in X, mostly leftovers from the Dorsey, Vijaya Gadde days, but right now there are at least an equal number of conservatives, who are tough and keep clobbering the left wing crazies in vigorous debates. I never even joined till Musk took over and sacked Gadde, Yoel Roth etc. It’s a great place right now.


18 posted on 10/18/2026 10:12:12 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: MinorityRepublican

Grok:

Private companies—primarily Amazon Web Services (AWS), Apple, and Google—deplatformed Parler in mid-January 2021 over content moderation failures related to violent posts after the January 6 Capitol riot. This happened while Donald Trump was still president; Joe Biden was inaugurated on January 20.


19 posted on 10/18/2026 10:19:54 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
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My dog is registered on X and he sees all the articles and comments.

Needless to say he does not pay for the privilege.

Lol.


20 posted on 10/18/2026 10:22:28 AM PDT by cgbg (Four seconds is all it takes to beat the brainwashing.)
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