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Section sizes Section size for Twitter under Elon Musk (47 sections) Section name Byte count Prose size (words) Header Total Header Total (Top) 10,812 10,812 192 192 History 14 53,132 0 1,308 Acquisition of Twitter 10,412 10,412 272 272 Post-acquisition 18,013 18,013 527 527 Layoffs and mass resignations 8,757 8,757 103 103 Resignation poll 8,875 8,875 220 220 Corporate value 2,990 2,990 115 115 Fines 4,071 4,071 71 71 Appearance and features 31 19,837 0 728 Posts 7,907 7,907 234 234 X Hiring 1,380 1,380 42 42 Grok 958 958 29 29 X Premium 8,228 8,228 361 361 X Money Account 1,333 1,333 62 62 Content moderation 980 44,860 0 1,170 Initial reforms 6,332 6,332 173 173 Handling of misinformation and disinformation 14,077 14,077 213 213 Increase in hate speech 14,378 14,378 453 453 Child sexual abuse material 7,792 7,792 233 233 Malicious and fake accounts 1,301 1,301 98 98 Policy changes 4,891 74,422 102 1,794 Account suspensions and reinstatements 10,296 19,795 249 455 ElonJet and journalists suspended 9,499 9,499 206 206 State-affiliated media labeling 14,704 14,704 375 375 Hateful conduct and language regarding transgender people 10,436 10,436 289 289 Aggressive monetization of access 9,322 9,322 146 146 Miscellaneous 15,274 15,274 427 427 Changes to the algorithm 32 6,174 0 328 "For You" feed 1,193 1,193 88 88 Promotion of Elon Musk's tweets 2,075 2,075 93 93 Promotion of state-controlled media 744 744 89 89 Promotion of conservative content 2,130 2,130 58 58 Major developments 25 33,732 0 714 Verification 10,474 10,474 270 270 Twitter Files 3,576 3,576 103 103 Dispute with ADL 19,657 19,657 341 341 Lawsuits 15 23,446 0 478 Center for Countering Digital Hate 5,826 5,826 169 169 Media Matters 16,265 16,265 228 228 Advertisers 1,340 1,340 81 81 Reactions and commentary 2,951 36,086 30 706 2022 24,338 24,338 370 370 2023 8,204 8,204 270 270 2024 593 593 36 36 Statistics 3,028 3,028 116 116 References 16,288 16,288 0 0 Further reading 1,213 1,213 0 0 Total 323,030 323,030 7,534 7,534

Merge?

Merge this article with Twitter Ned1a Wanna talk? 18:08, 9 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Nedia020415 Why? Maybe with Acquisition of Twitter by Elon Musk, if anything. _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 08:33, 14 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Ah. That seems better to merge. Ned1a Wanna talk? 00:55, 16 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Merging with Criticism of Twitter makes the most sense to me as it already has a section dedicated to this. Averagecryptid (talk) 20:17, 9 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Maybe we can merge all of these articles into twitter. Nedia Wanna talk? Stalk my edits 22:25, 9 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I support a merge to deal with BLP issues, having the subject in the article name is UNDUE. Jtbobwaysf (talk) 22:37, 9 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi sir I want to some help

Hi sir I want some help 2409:4089:BECB:2756:0:0:29CA:1608 (talk) 16:17, 29 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

If you're looking for help pertaining to Elon Musk or Twitter, you're in the wrong place. But if you want to suggest a change to this Wikipedia article, you can do so below. ser! ^{(chat to me - see my edits)} 16:36, 29 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Far-right politics and social media

The article is included in Category:Far-right politics and social media, but unlike other pages like newspapers or blogs X is a social network, it has no webmaster writing anything or any content whatsoever other than what users want to post. And yes, it surely has far-right posts... same as it has far-left, standard right, standard left, center, apolitical, "they can all go to hell", and basically all topics that someone may want to talk about. So we either include this category, along with all the subcategories of Category:Websites by topic (a truly futile task, BTW)... or just ignore them all, and strick to the other categories the article already has. Cambalachero (talk) 17:43, 16 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Its category "Far-right politics and social media" not "Far-right social media" and there appears to be significant discussion of far-right politics and social media in the article (Account suspensions and reinstatements)... And there is no requirement to include all categories or ignore them. That being said I agree that its not a great category for the page as currently constructed. Horse Eye's Back (talk) 17:48, 16 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Then that would make it a random category intersection of two unrelated criteria. Cambalachero (talk) 14:14, 12 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Horse Eye's Back and Cambalachero: This is specifically about Musk's acquisition and the changes wrought thereafter. I added alt-tech, seeing X has been included within that term by RS (alt is more veritably a reference to the alt-right rather than 'alternative'). Anyone can post on 4/8chan (and other chans), Gab, Truth Social etc. but we do not deny their far/alt-right associations. As it relates to Musk, this appears to be an apt cat. Gotitbro (talk) 07:15, 10 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The categorization can be referenced? Big deal. I wouldn't expect any less, all categories in all articles must be. That's the bare minimum, but enough in itself, as other criteria may apply. In this case, we don't categorize topics by their opinions over stuff, or because allegations others may do. See Wikipedia:Overcategorization#By opinion or preference of an issue or topic Cambalachero (talk) 14:25, 12 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hardly an opinion and we are already on a subtopic of a subtopic (acquisition of Twitter>transition under Musk). I wouldn't really term cats here as overcategorization. Gotitbro (talk) 19:43, 22 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

An opinion is an opinion regardless of the support it may have, and we can not categorize based on opinions. And being a parent topic article or a subtopic article is irrelevant, the policy of overcategorization applies either way. Cambalachero (talk) 05:11, 23 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

"The Great X-odus" listed at Redirects for discussion

The redirect The Great X-odus has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2025 August 31 § The Great X-odus until a consensus is reached. Belbury (talk) 16:01, 31 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]