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X CEO Linda Yaccarino claims company has 90M US users, less than 1% are teens

During today's Senate Judiciary Committee hearing focused on kids' online safety, X CEO Linda Yaccarino downplayed the social network's reach among

Speaking at an event last fall, Musk claimed the network overall had grown to 550 million monthly active users, though it wasn’t clear if his calculations included fake accounts, like bots and spammers. A decline would align with market expectations, as a Pew Research study published in July 2023 found that a quarter of Twitter users said they were unlikely to be on the site in a year’s time. Though Twitter, now X, has remained stickier than first thought, it has been facing a number of new competitors, including the decentralized network Mastodon, Bluesky, and Instagram Threads, among others.

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