8,821,589 accounts
+1,068 in the last hour
+22,373 in the last day
+297,539 in the last week
@mastodonusercount 9 million before new year? #xp
@gpowerf @mastodonusercount we'd need an average growth of ~6 500 users per hour, so probably not.
At 1 000 users per hour we should expect 9 000 000 users by December 30th and 10 000 000 users by February 10th.
@glaber @mastodonusercount it is dependent on Space Karen saying something stupid. But he’s been much more quiet since his poll said he should quit.
@glaber I think Mastodon is plenty big enough and it could be argued we don’t want the Twitter masses as then Mastodon would be the badlands like Twitter is.
@gpowerf
Sorry, I'd read 10 million by new year LMAO
I think around 10 million users would be critical mass. As of right now, whoever hasn't moved won't move unless either:
— most of their contacts move
and/or
— Melon outperforms himself yet again
As I understand, Twitter's losing a bunch of money a day, so it might be a waiting game until there's no money to run servers or pay the few remaining employees, and advertisers get the hell outta there