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by genmud 981 days ago
Well, anecdotally it feels like infosec and osint twitter are rotten husks of their former glory. There used to be vibrant discussions and commentary, but I guess it depends on what you do/follow on Twitter.

MAU might be flat, but I can almost guarantee the bot or inauthentic traffic is what are keeping those numbers flat. Heck, a non zero amount of that inauthentic traffic has paid for twitter for purposes of spam or propaganda.

Protip: you can generally tell a sites actual user base by the quality of ads and their ad revenue. They are running non brand safe ads and reports are their ad revenue is a fraction of pre-musk levels. I half expect them to start running straight up taboola ads at some point.