Looks like today's spike is the largest in a long time -- and this is why we're all experiencing lots of slowness and performance issues.

Even my small instances are being affected.

Looks like this could be a sustained spike.

5,000+ new accounts are being registered hourly

If trends remain as they are, we may break 9 million Mastodon accounts this week.

@atomicpoet Google says that Twitter produces 34 million tweets per hour.
We are currently at 80 thousand per hour.

Still have a ways to go… but the growth is real. And the impact every time Musk does something stupid is obvious.

@chrisale @atomicpoet

I’m still hearing about 80% of the voices I want to hear. When we see these massive volume numbers for Twitter, I have to think about 50% of that is troll or bot volume.