
Hi folks, senior tech reporter Kylie Robison here. As promised, I’m back with more X news.
Yesterday, X owner Elon Musk posted that the platform “is seeing incredible usage growth,” with a graph listing an unusual metric for a platform: total seconds. Globally, the 7-day average was 360.7 billion—with a B—seconds spent on the platform. CEO Linda Yaccarino chimed in with the somewhat confusing rejoinder that “no wonder new users are becoming heavy users 3 times faster than before.” What? Anyways.