# Elon Musk's Twitter Engagement Drops After Russian Data Center Strikes

> Elon Musk's Twitter engagement plummets as Ukrainian strikes hit Russian data centers.
- Title: Elon Musk's Twitter Engagement Drops After Russian Data…
- Summary: Elon Musk's Twitter engagement plummets as Ukrainian strikes hit Russian data centers. Ukrainian strikes on Russian data centers reduced Elon Musk's Twitter…
- Keywords: elon musk, ukraine, russian data centers, twitter engagement, yandex, zelensky, bot activity, midterm elections, science, technology, Elon, Musk's
- Source: Futurism — https://futurism.com/future-society/elon-musk-engagement-shrivels-destruction-russian-bot-farm
- Author: Victor Tangermann, Jon Christian
- Published: 2026-10-13T14:46:28+00:00
- Read time: 1 min
- Topics: elon musk, ukraine, russian data centers, twitter engagement, yandex, zelensky, bot activity, midterm elections, science, technology
## Ukrainian strikes on Russian data centers
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky claimed the strikes on Yandex’s data centers reduced Russian bot activity on social media platforms.

> it suddenly became a little easier to breathe on many social media platforms
## Elon Musk's Twitter engagement drops
Elon Musk’s Twitter posts saw likes plummet from 17,000 to 81,000 daily to 11,000 and 8,000 after the strikes.

> Woah, Elon Musk out here getting less than 5k likes on his tweets after the bot farm got exploded
## Cloudflare reports 99% drop in Yandex traffic
Cloudflare showed Yandex traffic dropped 99 percent following the strikes, though not all traffic was bot behavior.

> Not all of the traffic was "necessarily bot behaviour on social media platforms"
## Zelensky retracts bot activity claim
Zelensky’s office clarified he was talking about social media atmosphere, not a concrete drop in bot activity.

> telling the BBC that he was "talking about the atmosphere on social media"
## Key takeaway

Ukrainian strikes on Russian data centers reduced Elon Musk's Twitter engagement from 17,000 to 81,000 daily likes to 11,000 and 8,000.