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Kylie Robison

Elon Musk’s new ‘user seconds’ metric is another curious chapter in X’s war on bots

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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.

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