“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.”
The tweet archive.
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.
“Hate speech impressions (# of times tweet was viewed) continue to decline, despite significant user growth! @TwitterSafety will publish data weekly. Freedom of speech doesn’t mean freedom of reach. Negativity should & will get less reach than positivity. https://t.co/36zl29rCSM”
“Exactly [@JudiciaryGOP] The whole world knows that the @EU_Commission weaponized its censorship law against @elonmusk because he bought Twitter and made it a free speech platform. The Committee will continue to expose the @EU_Commission as it tries to hide its decade-long censorship regime.”
“I hope that even my worst critics remain on Twitter, because that is what free speech means”
“The Twitter Files on free speech suppression soon to be published on Twitter itself. The public deserves to know what really happened …”
“Twitter has had a massive drop in revenue, due to activist groups pressuring advertisers, even though nothing has changed with content moderation and we did everything we could to appease the activists. Extremely messed up! They’re trying to destroy free speech in America.”
“Apple has mostly stopped advertising on Twitter. Do they hate free speech in America?”
“Truth Social (terrible name) exists because Twitter censored free speech”
“Given that Twitter serves as the de facto public town square, failing to adhere to free speech principles fundamentally undermines democracy. What should be done?”
“@TimRunsHisMouth I’m fine with Trump not tweeting. The important thing is that Twitter correct a grave mistake in banning his account, despite no violation of the law or terms of service. Deplatforming a sitting President undermined public trust in Twitter for half of America.”
“@hodgetwins @micsolana Twitter acting by itself to suppress free speech is not a 1st amendment violation, but acting under orders from the government to suppress free speech, with no judicial review, is”
“@Alwaleed_Talal @Twitter @Kingdom_KHC Interesting. Just two questions, if I may. How much of Twitter does the Kingdom own, directly & indirectly? What are the Kingdom’s views on journalistic freedom of speech?”
“Free speech is essential to a functioning democracy. Do you believe Twitter rigorously adheres to this principle?”
“@bennyjohnson Twitter exec trashing free speech & mocking people with Asperger’s …”
“@catturd2 They began brewing attacks of all kinds as soon as the Twitter acquisition was announced. In my 30 year career, including the entire MeToo era, there’s nothing to report, but, as soon as I say I intend to restore free speech to Twitter & vote Republican, suddenly there is …”
“There are about 500M tweets per day & billions of impressions, so hate speech impressions are <0.1% of what’s seen on Twitter!”
“Our @CommunityNotes system and asking @Grok if something is true contribute enormously to fighting fast-moving falsehoods! [@XFreeze] 𝕏 is now more truthful than Twitter ever was 𝕏 holds more truth than any other major platform because of Community Notes People get Community Noted when they say things that aren't true No other major platform has anything as powerful as Community Notes for real-time,… https://x.com/i/web/status/1997298074998161670”
“@hodgetwins @TheBabylonBee Key test for authenticity is how someone is in live back & forth discussion where canned speeches don’t work, eg Twitter Spaces. Has she done anything like that?”
“@JonErlichman Twitter was acquired by X Corp both to ensure freedom of speech and as an accelerant for X, the everything app. This is not simply a company renaming itself, but doing the same thing. The Twitter name made sense when it was just 140 character messages going back and forth – like…”
“@eyeslasho As this insufferable douchebag illustrates, old Twitter was a far left propaganda machine. Now we actually have free speech.”
“RT @wildbarestepf: > Dems relentlessly shit on Elon > Elon buys twitter, exposes censorship, restores actual free speech > media loses its…”
“RT @Awk20000: Asmongold shouts out Elon Musk for saving free speech & shifting the timeline in buying Twitter(X) “Buying Twitter was crack…”
“Changed my name to Mr. Tweet, now Twitter won’t let me change it back 🤣”
“If I had a dollar for every time someone asked me if Trump is coming back on this platform, Twitter would be minting money!”
“I meet so many people who read twitter every day, but almost never tweet. If I may beg your indulgence, please add your voice to the public dialogue!”
“Twitter is rolling out View Count, so you can see how many times a tweet has been seen! This is normal for video. Shows how much more alive Twitter is than it may seem, as over 90% of Twitter users read, but don’t tweet, reply or like, as those are public actions.”
“Very important to fix your Twitter feed: 1. Tap home button. 2. Tap stars on upper right of screen. 3. Select “Latest tweets”. You are being manipulated by the algorithm in ways you don’t realize. Easy to switch back & forth to see the difference.”
“The same legacy media dingbats who lied repeatedly, claiming “X/Twitter is dying”, are now saying it’s the “largest & most influential platform” 🤣🤣🤣 The real crime here is that my sides hurt from laughing at the irony! Listen Ed, if you want to refute something, it is easy…”
“Twitter is simply the most interesting place on the Internet. That’s why you’re reading this tweet right now.”
“Twitter will soon add ability to attach long-form text to tweets, ending absurdity of notepad screenshots”
“In coming months, Twitter will translate & recommend amazing tweets from people in other countries & cultures”
“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 will always be free for casual users, but maybe a slight cost for commercial/government users”
“Twitter will soon start freeing the name space of 1.5 billion accounts”
“@RepAdamSchiff @RepMarkTakano False, hate speech impressions are actually down by 1/3 for Twitter now vs prior to acquisition @CommunityNotes”
“World Cup traffic hit almost 20,000 tweets per second today! Great work by Twitter team managing record usage.”
“Again, to be crystal clear, Twitter’s strong commitment to content moderation remains absolutely unchanged. In fact, we have actually seen hateful speech at times this week decline *below* our prior norms, contrary to what you may read in the press.”
“Pretty wild that you can engage in back-and-forth dialogue with over 100k people live on Twitter Spaces!”
“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.”
“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.”
“Long day at Twitter HQ with eng team Two significant problems mostly addressed: 1. Fanout service for Following feed was getting overloaded when I tweeted, resulting in up to 95% of my tweets not getting delivered at all. Following is now pulling from search (aka Earlybird).…”
“Twitter has a bookmark function accessible through share button on tweet. To read bookmarks, tap profile icon. This obscure UI will be fixed in Jan.”
“Twitter will open source all code used to recommend tweets on March 31st”
“@OzraeliAvi I’ve seen a lot of concerning tweets about the recent Brazil election. If those tweets are accurate, it’s possible that Twitter personnel gave preference to left wing candidates.”
“Hate speech impressions down by 1/3 from pre-spike levels. Congrats to Twitter team! https://t.co/5BWaQoIlip”
“The Twitter Files, Part 3 Deplatforming the President”
“Twitter will publish tweet recommendation code & make account/tweet status visible no later than next month. Transparency builds trust.”
“Twitter is now serving almost 90 billion tweet impressions per day! Just how incredibly alive the system actually is will become obvious as we show view count on all tweets.”
“@mattyglesias Did your brain fall out of your head, Yglesias? The choice is have Twitter throttled in its entirety or limit access to some tweets. Which one do you want?”
“Most of these “top” accounts tweet rarely and post very little content. Is Twitter dying?”
