[planetsprite]

He has 111 million followers on twitter. He isn't some niche tech celebrity.

[brewdad]

Half of them bots. As he discovered after bidding for ownership.

[bojo]

0.01% of the world population

[6502nerdface]

Well... by comparison the sitting president of the United States peaked at only ~89 million followers [1].

[1] https://slate.com/technology/2021/01/trump-twitter-ban-follo...

[threeseed]

You do understand that not everyone uses Twitter.

37% of the world doesn't even have internet.

[tomjakubowski]

Not that they're all 1:1 with real people but: 111 million is 1.4% of the world's population (~8B)

[hackernewds]

And by his measure far far less since most are bots.