Signups were averaging over two million per day in the last
seven days as of November 16, up 66 percent compared to the same week in 2021,
Musk said in a tweet late on Saturday.
He also said that user active minutes were at a record high,
averaging nearly 8 billion active minutes per day in the last seven days as of
November 15, an increase of 30 percent in comparison to the same week last
year.
Hate speech impressions decreased as of November 13 compared
to October of last year.
Reported impersonations on the platform spiked earlier this
month, before and in wake of the Twitter Blue launch, according to Musk.
Musk, who also runs rocket company SpaceX, brain-chip
startup Neuralink and tunneling firm the Boring Company, has said that buying
Twitter would speed up his ambition to create an "everything app"
called X.
Musk's "Twitter 2.0 The Everything App" will have
features like encrypted direct messages (DMs), longform tweets and payments,
according to the tweet.
In another tweet early on Sunday, Musk said he sees a
"path to Twitter exceeding a billion monthly users in 12 to 18
months."
Advertisers on Twitter, including big companies such as
General Motors, Mondelez International, Volkswagen AG, have paused advertising
on the platform, as they grapple with the new boss.
Musk has said that Twitter was experiencing a "massive
drop in revenue" from the advertiser retreat, blaming a coalition of civil
rights groups that has been pressing the platform's top advertisers to take
action if he did not protect content moderation.
Activists are urging Twitter's advertisers to issue
statements about pulling their ads off the social media platform after Musk
lifted the ban on tweets by former US president Donald Trump.
Slides from my Twitter company talk pic.twitter.com/8LLXrwylta
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 27, 2022
Hundreds of Twitter employees are believed to have quit the
beleaguered company, following an ultimatum by Musk that staffers sign up for
"long hours at high intensity," or leave.
The company earlier in November laid off half its workforce,
with teams responsible for communications, content curation, human rights and
machine learning ethics being gutted, as well as some product and engineering
teams. © Reuters