General Discussion

You seem to have some odd ideas about how Twitter's finances work, so maybe you are bewildered, as you say.

Musk makes money from what advertisers he has left, but only if people actually view the ads they place. We don't post Twitter ads here.

The only way you're anywhere near right is that we add to Twitter's traffic in a vanishingly small way, but since Musk has apparently given up purging the vast number of bots from the site, the statistics of number of visits/views is hardly something he can use to sell advertising, even if he takes a break from telling prospective advertisers to go fuck themselves.

My main delight is hotlinking to Twitter images. Musk makes nothing from our doing that, we're effectively stealing his bandwidth, and unless someone here checks out an image's URL, no one is aware of where it comes from.