“Please note that Twitter will do lots of dumb things in coming months. We will keep what works & change what doesn’t.”
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15 years of Elon, fully searchable. The production archive uses Supabase as the source of truth, with 94,952 indexed tweets available in development as a full-archive fallback and a curated annotation layer for context, theory, and how major claims aged.
“Regarding Twitter’s reduction in force, unfortunately there is no choice when the company is losing over $4M/day. Everyone exited was offered 3 months of severance, which is 50% more than legally required.”
“As always, please try stay as close to the truth as possible, even for stuff you don’t like. This platform aspires to maximize signal/noise of the human collective.”
“The speed at which your message on this platform can reach a vast number of people is mind-blowing”
“You know Twitter is being fair when extremists on far right and far left are simultaneously upset! Twitter aims to serve center 80% of people, who wish to learn, laugh & engage in reasoned debate. ❤️”
“Off Twitter for a while”
“Off Twitter for a while”
“This platform is the top source of news on Earth!”
“New Twitter policy is freedom of speech, but not freedom of reach. Negative/hate tweets will be max deboosted & demonetized, so no ads or other revenue to Twitter. You won’t find the tweet unless you specifically seek it out, which is no different from rest of Internet.”
“Usage of Twitter continues to rise. One thing is for sure: it isn’t boring!”
“Under pressure from hundreds of activist employees, Twitter deplatforms Trump, a sitting US President, even though they themselves acknowledge that he didn’t violate the rules:”
“Twitter is the PvP of social media”
“As Twitter pursues the goal of elevating citizen journalism, media elite will try everything to stop that from happening”
“Now for the find out part of FAFO [@cb_doge] BREAKING: 𝕏 is now the #1 News App on the AppStore in Venezuela 🇻🇪 The people of Venezuela are receiving all the unfiltered and truthful news right here on this platform in real-time. Maduro once banned the 𝕏 app in Venezuela. Fate loves Irony.”
“@esaagar Suspending the Twitter account of a major news organization for publishing a truthful story was obviously incredibly inappropriate”
“If Twitter acquisition completes, company will be super focused on hardcore software engineering, design, infosec & server hardware https://t.co/m2HseK0TXl https://fortune.com/2022/05/05/elon-musk-twitter-job-interest/”
“Twitter will soon start freeing the name space of 1.5 billion accounts”
“More and more over time, as we hew closer to the truth, Twitter will earn the trust of the people”
“Just a note to encourage people of different political or other views to engage in civil debate on Twitter. Worst case, the other side has a slightly better understanding of your views.”
“Ya know, it’s pretty damn great to be able to talk to people from all walks of life and many countries on Twitter! So much to be learned, even from the harshest critics. Basically … I’m just saying I love all you crazy people ♥️♥️”
“Coverage of FTX meltdown is incomparably faster *and* better quality on Twitter than old-school media”
“Meeting a lot of cool people at Twitter today!”
“I am excited to welcome Linda Yaccarino as the new CEO of Twitter! @LindaYacc will focus primarily on business operations, while I focus on product design & new technology. Looking forward to working with Linda to transform this platform into X, the everything app.”
“Many have offered rich incentives for X (fka Twitter) to move its HQ out of San Francisco. Moreover, the city is in a doom spiral with one company after another left or leaving. Therefore, they expect X will move too. We will not. You only know who your real friends are when…”
“At the risk of stating the obvious, I don’t know what’s going on with every part of this platform all the time, but our policy worldwide is to fight for maximum freedom of speech under the law. Anyone working for X Corp who does not operate according to this principle will be…”
“This platform is the top source of news on Earth!”
“Once again, I’d like to offer this platform to anyone on the left. You will get equal treatment.”
“System purge of bots & trolls underway. Please reply to me or @XEng if legitimate accounts are suspended. X Corp will be tracing the people responsible and bringing the full force of the law to bear upon them.”
“At risk of starting the obvious, there are many attention-seeking trolls on all social media platforms trying to yank your chain. They win if you respond.”
“How ironic that the legacy media & “experts” were predicting that this platform would be the one to go offline”
“For those considering putting their work on the X platform, consider that Tucker Carlson’s show when he was on TV, had single digit million viewers. Strong by legacy news standards. Views for his episodes on X now exceed the population of the United States. Talk to Earth via…”
“@anothercohen The reality is that this guy (who is independently wealthy) did no actual work, claimed as his excuse that he had a disability that prevented him from typing, yet was simultaneously tweeting up a storm. Can’t say I have a lot of respect for that.”
“Sorry for showing you so many irrelevant & annoying ads on Twitter! We’re taking the (obvious) corrective action of tying ads to keywords & topics in tweets, like Google does with search. This will improve contextual relevance dramatically.”
“The severity of the censorship and the degree to which Brazil’s own laws are being broken, to the detriment of their own people, is the worst of any country in the world in which this platform operates.”
“Pictures of people working inside Starship [@spacesudoer] Starship is gigantic!”
“Dirty Sánchez is a tyrant and traitor to the people of Spain 💩 [@clashreport] Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez: Starting next week, my government will implement the following actions: First, we will change the law in Spain to hold platform executives legally accountable for many infringements taking place on their sites. Second, we will turn algorithmic… https://x.com/i/web/status/2018650388371521787”
“This platform is the number 1 source of news in the world!”
“This platform will provide email addresses of subscribers (who opt in) to content creators, so that creators are able to leave this platform easily & take their subscribers with them if they want”
“The legacy media never mentions white genocide in South Africa, because it doesn’t fit their narrative that whites can be victims [@ada_lluch] If it wasn’t for @ElonMusk and X in general, I’d have no idea there is an entire political party in South Africa advocating for the deaths of their white population. How is this not one of the biggest stories out there right now among the mainstream media, too? In Spain, almost”
“Those who can’t handle reality will leave this platform due to @CommunityNotes. But the public will increasingly come to realize that 𝕏 is the best source of truth, causing our user numbers to rise as they abandon the less accurate sources of information.”
“Other platforms in Brazil are silently complying with the illegal political censorship demands of Dictator de Voldemort”
“This platform is growing fast! Just exceeded 8 billion user-minutes per day … of the most influential, smartest people on Earth 😉”
“Yup [@cb_doge] Remember that 𝕏 was the only platform that refused the secret censorship deal the EU offered while other platforms accepted it.”
“Such great content from Japan! 🇯🇵 [@dogeofficialceo] Japanese tweets restored my faith in humanity”
“Much appreciated [@JDVance] Rumors swirling that the EU commission will fine X hundreds of millions of dollars for not engaging in censorship. The EU should be supporting free speech not attacking American companies over garbage.”
“It’s vital that creators be able to leave our platform at any time and take their subscribers with them. We want to give peace of mind to creators that they’re not trapped here if they build a large audience.”
“Yes [@C_3C_3] The Left never got over Elon buying X. That wasn’t supposed to happen. The Left’s ideas are so bad and damaging they need total control of information. When Elon bought X they lost that control. People started seeing truth. This is catastrophic for the Left. Simple.”
“Should Twitter offer a general amnesty to suspended accounts, provided that they have not broken the law or engaged in egregious spam?”
“Jonathan at ADL kicked off a massive Twitter boycott campaign less than a week after the acquisition closed. Literally nothing had changed about the site. Our US revenue is still 60% down from that campaign, but slowly improving. https://t.co/7vh5dtdDqi”
“Several major media sources incorrectly reported that my Tweets were boosted above normal levels earlier this week. A review of my Tweet likes & views over the past 6 months, especially as a ratio of followers, shows this to be false. We did have a bug that briefly caused…”
