Musk Celebrates New Twitter Usage High as Engineers Flee
- Musk issues ultimatum on willingness to stay, be ‘hardcore’
- So many employees have left that some question operability
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Twitter Inc. owner Elon Musk tweeted out an upbeat message saying the company beat its all-time high in usage late Thursday, on a day when many employees decided to leave the company.
It was the second time in a week that the social network set a record, according to Musk, who said it hit its highest-ever number of daily active users on Nov. 11. In another message posted this week, the billionaire -- who hasn’t given himself a specific job title at Twitter after adopting “chief Twit” and “complaint hotline operator” briefly -- posted a chart showing user numbers rising since his acquisition. Musk has long disputed the accuracy of Twitter’s internal metrics, saying they are unreliable due to an overabundance of fake or bot accounts.