Kevin RussellApr 14, 2023

Mastodon was UNDER a million members when Elron the lumpy bought twitter.

Last week it reached 10 million.

Today it is Eleven Million.

Mastodon is growing faster than a million and a half a month at the moment. Should pass twitter before fall.

Edited to fix my math.

#newusers #noobs #twitter #MASTODON

Show threadDrPsy 🩺 Apr 15, 2023
@kevinrns @siegi hmmm Twitter is supposed to have 300-400 million users. I’m not sure the math is correct.
Show threadKevin RussellApr 15, 2023

@YannnSud @siegi

Yes only the counting in my post certifiable.

And the counting is amazing.

When Elon bought twitter, Masto was 400,000 ish

Show threadBoud

@kevinrns @YannnSud @siegi

(cat active_users | wc) != (cat users | wc)

Apr 16, 2023 at 1:28pmWeb
Show threadDrPsy 🩺 Apr 16, 2023
@boud @kevinrns @siegi that's quite cryptic :)
Show threadBoudApr 16, 2023

@YannnSud

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_%28Unix%29

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wc_%28Unix%29

In other words, the number of active users is not the same as the total number of users who've registered but might have only tooted once or twice (or never). Eugen's 1M estimate was for *active* users defined in some way over a month.

@kevinrns @siegi

cat (Unix) - Wikipedia