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What X does or does not do is increasingly irrelevant. They have a CEO who is good at creating attention for himself, but Twitter/X has substantially less active users than Pinterest now. I am almost surprised there is time to make this change while working on board vote politics on his $50B compensation package controversy at his other CEO job.

With all the downvote this clearly triggered some people in bad ways, but it is true. Twitter is about 250M, Pinterest is about 500M.

Twitter is down substantially in all publicly disclosed metrics / investor writedowns since the go private transaction. I don't know what it is about them that makes some people treat the company with deference it doesn't deserve, but it's a shrinking, niche social network.