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How much time does Elon Musk spend tweeting each day?

Taylor Lorenz reports on the long speculated possibility of Elon Musk having sock puppet accounts:

Over the weekend, a Twitter Space hosted by right-wing influencer Laura Loomer devolved into chaos when an account named “Adrian Dittmann” joined the discussion. The user, who spoke with an eerily familiar voice, relentlessly defended Elon Musk.

Immediately people began speculating that the “Adrian Dittmann” account was actually just Elon. The account spoke like him, posted like him, and suspiciously talked about Musk in the first person at one point. This isn’t the first time Musk has been accused of using burner accounts. Earlier this year, it was revealed that he had been running another secret account where he role played as his toddler son and engaged with his own posts. People have also been posting theories about Musk’s involvement with “Adrian Dittmann” for nearly a year.

On Sunday, both Musk and “Adrian” joined a voice chat on X to have a discussion with each other, but the conversation was stilted and didn’t put many people’s suspicions to rest. Elon’s trans daughter Vivian apparently also once posted on Threads claiming that Dittmann really is Musk’s alt.

https://www.usermag.co/p/elon-musks-secret-alt-adrian-dittmann

I return to my favourite chart of 2024:

This WSJ analysis tells the story in a different way, though it stops before he really starting to get pilled by Twitter 👇

In seven days in August he tweeted 650 times. In one day during the election he posted 145 times. If we assume he is posting all of these, which seems likely but far from certain, what does this mean for his day-to-day experience?

If we made the conservative assumption that there’s one minute of distraction prior to a tweet, two minutes of tweeting and then three minutes to return to what you were doing, 145 tweets in a day would be 12 hours of being consumed by Twitter. But of course he’s also reading and many of these tweets are replies. So it can’t be taken atomistically, nor do I really think it only takes 3 minutes to return to what you were doing if you are hooked into the platform to that degree.

In fact I suspect we could read the charts above as showing a process through which someone never really returns to what they were doing. It’s a chart showing someone who lives in social media, rather than uses it, to invoke Mark Fisher’s phrase.

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