but it seems like Zuccs wife and kids still love him

Oooo I get to spread this gossip twice in one day? Lucky me

There’s a credible rumor that Zuccs wife likes sleeping with younger East Asian men and at Silicon Valley parties she’s commonly seen and pictured talking to said men

source is like everybody on tech worker forums (hackernews, Blind) and my personal acquaintances who have taken photos of her doing so. (I’ve also seen photos of Sergey Brin at a crypto millionaire’s mansion Halloween party last year hanging out and leaving with 2 teenage looking girls. He’s been known to be a sex pest even in the early days of Google where he harassed the massage therapists)

yeah instagram users but basically. I assume all the content farmers and bots are jumping on it, plus some fraction of the 1.6 billion instagram users, since the accounts are inextricably linked for now it does make it easy to sign up anyhow.

I feel like these numbers are just CIA playing hardball with Musk. One interpretation is that the more drastic changes like rate-limiting are pleas for backdoor money from the Pentagon, like look how much less useful I can make this shit. Twitter is a pretty big propaganda outlet and source of data, it would make sense to try to get himself out of this mess the same way he has at every other scam he’s affiliated with. But looks like it may well have been cheaper/easier to just have Zucc clone it.

Getting their media pals to do a PR blitz for their boy, about 100M user is going to get some downloads from people who wouldn’t have otherwise. Who cares about a few days or weeks to actually hit that number, they’ll get there eventually.