Elon Musk # tweets August 7 - August 14, 2026?

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Market context

Elon Musk’s posting rate on X is the key driver here, because the contract settles on counted main-feed posts, quote posts and reposts between 7 August and 14 August 2026, while replies do not count unless they appear on the main feed and are captured by the tracker. Recent public trackers and daily recap videos show that Musk’s output can swing sharply, with examples ranging from 14 posts on 14 July to 95 on 1 August and 76 on 26 July, which makes single-week totals highly sensitive to news flow and attention spikes.[1][3][7]

The current **0% YES** crowd-implied probability looks like a mechanical artefact of how the market is displayed rather than a literal forecast of zero posts, given that the settlement window is still ahead and even quiet weeks can produce meaningful counts once reposts and quote posts are included.[2][5][11] For traders, the relevant catalysts are any Musk-led announcements, Tesla or SpaceX headlines, political interventions, product launches, or viral exchanges that can abruptly lift activity, especially if they coincide with volatile BTC and ETH conditions that tend to amplify broad risk appetite and attention to large accounts on X.[5][9]

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Methodology

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