When Elon Musk brought his feud with Donald Trump to his social network, how long did I avoid the service in question? Long enough that my browser actually did not automatically complete the URL Twitter.com (What I continued to typed in unsuccessful, how many users. Despite X). This felt like a subtle warning of a friend: age, you have been sober for six months. Are you secure A bar is the best place to be straight?
But with apologies to bluesky and threads, this special bar was the only Place to be the richest man in the world, and the US President tore into one another on Thursday. Muschus went so far in a flood of posts and answers that Trump is charged.
Prominent, right -wing extremist supporters of both men who were forced to take part were moved to a cat steam for the centuries, while the main concerns of the critics were whether they had enough popcorn for it.
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At least one night was Twitter of the old school back in bar terms, the “cheers” of the Internet.
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After 15 years of posting, after the US election, I became dark on X/Twitter. This was my reaction to Elon Musk’s new note-out out-out-out-out-out-out-out-out-out-out-out-out-out-out-out-out-out-out-out-out-out-out-out-out-out-out-out-out-out-out-out-out-out-out-out-of To withdraw facts for the service. It was also a way to stop Doomscrolling and win many hours of productivity during my day. But I was anything but alone.
The user base of X had declined in 2024 and was supposed to decrease again and again in 2025. This definitely applies in the EU, where more than 11 million users have fled the Musk service this year. And while the user numbers of bluesky and threads climbed after the election, the numbers do not quite match. Many exhausted users simply left X for … in real life.
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It is too early to know whether the Musk-Trump-Fehde has created a daily active user floating and much too early to recognize its effects on the month more, active user. But on the ground floor, it certainly felt like reunification of an old one suggested that we had a new competitor for some old-fashioned users who like to discuss the “best night on Twitter”. (So ​​much that some right-wing reports wondered whether Trump and Mousk only Trollten-but no, according to several reports, the break is real and continues on Friday.)
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Of course it was not just Twitter; Trump’s own social network seemed to creak to his post under the stress of traffic. But this too created a screenshot that of course became viral on Twitter.
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The appeal was not only that Musk X/Twitter made his war space. It was also the place where they most likely saw other Zinger from interested parties, including those who could possibly avoid Musk.
A typical example: This tweet of a prominent conservative author and mother of Musks 14th child.
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The fuel for the feud was provided by the fact that X/Twitter itself has a long memory – an archive, the bluesky et al will always fight to fit. Musk, Furious that Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” would increase the deficit, began to publish quote tweets from everyone if Trump had promised to lower it and added Snarky comments in accordance with.
But old tweets have dropped in both directions, and in February many users wanted to point out a certain bromentic explanation of the Trump love of Musk:
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The fact that the chaotic separation broke out at the beginning of the Pride month did not know -especially in view of the fact that both Trump and Musk have a rocky relationship with the LGBTQ community.
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Is the return of what we could call “Popcorn Twitter”, sufficient to reverse the long -term decline in the user base of X? For the time being, this is like the relationship between Trump-Musk.
At least for one night, the service of what it could be reminded us: not just a global city square, not just a news source that often acts the likelihood of immediacy with perception, but also a bar in which a networked amount of millions serves the best snark on the planet.
And on the one hand, I will raise a single temporary glass.
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