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After reading the Elon biography, can’t unsee how many of these boil down to “who came up with this requirement?”and “delete”.

After reading the Elon biography, can’t unsee how many of these boil down to “who came up with this requirement?”and “delete”. 

https://x.com/XEng/status/1717754398410240018?s=20

It's all impressive, but you still have to make a product that people want to use. Most independent sources say X has lost ~10% of its DAU QoQ. D1, D7, D30 retention all down. If engineering efficiency is their north star, then kudos; but business metrics are suffering.

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There are too many variables to be able to attribute this shift in metrics to a specific thing such as product quality, feed quality, performance, Elon's popularity, bot crackdown, etc. etc.

Also a metric trending downward for a while doesn't mean that it can't shift back up.

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I'm a touch skeptical of the "bot sweep" explanation for declining DAUs. Effect is about the same on iOS as Android even though bots tend to be operated from Android / web clients + iPhone install base went from 16% > 14%. I also feel like they'd be out there saying this explicitly if it were a major contributor.

They are also clamping down on bots, that’s part of the lost DAU