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Matt Binder@mattbinder.bsky.social |
new: noticed an uptick in bots on X / Twitter? you're not alone.
new data provided to me by one cybersecurity firm found:
➡️ nearly 76% of traffic from X to its clients' sites was fake during Super Bowl weekend
no other platform came close to that
read more:
mashable.com/article/x-tw...
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@nolongermuddled.bsky.social
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I’m sure none of the #SuperbOwl postings were driven by boots. Superb Owl.
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Mithras - Left Justified and Ancient
@mithras.bsky.social
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And what percentage of those bots are paying for check marks, thus providing the majority of Twitter's income?
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JungleYeti
@jungleyeti.bsky.social
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It's a big enough difference that the point would be tough to argue. Even so, it's worth noting that the article is full of "may have"s, "appears that"s and "could be"s and it is based on "a small portion of the relevant data, and it's not scientifically sampled". At least a grain of salt.
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Sysfin
@sysfin.bsky.social
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What was the baseline before Elons takeover? I know media people sometimes said the actual traffic from twitter never great but this seems like an order of magnitude worse.
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NutMeg
@casuallychaotic.bsky.social
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Lies! There are no bots on 𝕩!! These reports are all FAKE NEWS!!! - brought to you by @FakeNewsBot
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True Tourtillott
@truet.bsky.social
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No, I’m on Bluesky and not Twitter
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Civil Disorder
@civildisorder.bsky.social
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76% is such a catastrophically high number, I don't think people really comprehend what that means in IT terms.
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Freezasaurus 🍩🦖
@freezasaurus.bsky.social
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It's wild. I suddenly lost like 100 followers on Twitter the other day, but now it's climbing rapidly again to more than half of what I lost. Again... all bots.
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Ted-Cville
@ted-cville.bsky.social
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Totally believe it!
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TBates
@tbates636.bsky.social
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X was heavily bot driven well before Elmo took over.
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Snacky
@snackyskies.bsky.social
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Elmu Murks, the shining knight of Free Speech for Robots
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Buddha Ferret
@buddhaferret.bsky.social
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Yep
myferretsatepepethefrog.blogspot.com/2024/02/kill...
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kathotdog.bsky.social
@kathotdog.bsky.social
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I got banned in November, so it is all good.
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Lyr
@lyr-k9.bsky.social
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My follower count on X keeps rising despite me not posting anything, and it's literally all bots. So many bots.
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TamarasClan
@tamarasclan.bsky.social
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Shocker. 🥱
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Oni Art 👹🎨
@oni-kun.bsky.social
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No wonder there's been so many bots @ me or following me on Twitter. God damn...
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Jami
@digitaljami.bsky.social
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A lot of that is those fake tweets about buying a "Not Again" t-shirt with Trump on the front and usually fake modeled by Taylor Swift.
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Carnotaurus
@carnotaurus.bsky.social
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So the implication here is that users in the monetisation program are faking clicks on ads next to their content, right? I.e. it’s ad fraud from blue checks
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SheltieDad
@sheltiedad.bsky.social
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I get lots of new followers every day on X. The same nekkid girls that used to follow me on Twitter in 2009 before they cleaned that ish up.
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Scott
@scott810.bsky.social
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That would be the same fake interactions and platform manipulation that was rumored to be the reason why some left leaning accounts were banned. I wonder why it's allowed hmmmm
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OldeHippi🦋
@oldehippi.bsky.social
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Trump and Musk are twins, it seems.
#Fraud
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Willow🪶
@robinstanfill2.bsky.social
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Oh X ( Twitter ) was very busy!!!!!
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Andi
@andil.bsky.social
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Elon is desperate, and his hellscape is broke
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Dandy G
@dangyd.bsky.social
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at least when facebook conned everyone into pivoting to video, they had the decency to hide the fraud
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Airahn
@airahn.bsky.social
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Remember when he said he would remove all the bots from twitter?
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Pelayo Saavedra
@pelayos.bsky.social
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Good thing the paid blue check would stop botting
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DavidNelsonNM
@davidnelsonnm.bsky.social
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“BOTS ARE FREE SPEECH! IT’S THE BEDROCK OF DEMOCRACY! OUR LIVES WILL END WITHOUT IT!” “Somebody get Elon off the roof again …”
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Comfortably Numb
@numb.comfortab.ly
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Michelle Lamb
@mlamb.bsky.social
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Shoddy just like his cars.
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alt.lauren.holiday (32 bit) 🥥🌴🏳️⚧️
@gaywad.lol
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L I N K I N B I O
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Vincent Comeau
@vincentcomeau.bsky.social
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I'm not surprised. A lot of my likes on Twitter are bots, and most of my new followers are also bots, that I remove immediately.
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Jenn
@swanjenn.bsky.social
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I never used yo get spam replies on Twatter. Now it happens every time I'm on there. I thought Space Karen was going to get rid of them...
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Lord Fionen 👑
@fionen.bsky.social
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Before leaving that dumpster fire, 99% of the engagement I got was from bots. It's a garbage site run by a garbage human. He also made it impossible to block spammers and haters, I still saw their posts in trends.
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Ravin Boodram
@handle.invalid
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Yes but have you considered. "Bitcoin, Dogecoin, Apple Vision Pro, Cybertruck, Elon" is actually not a bot reply.
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LaurenceM
@biglarry2k23.bsky.social
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None of it landed near me .. cos I baled out from his crooked plaything last year.
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@ninjamonkky.bsky.social
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E: Eh, what if we just use the money we made selling off the furniture to pay for some bots on big game days. Spike our numbers and the advertising comes back. I'm a genius! Everybody, I think it's going to be another all nighter. If you need me I'll be in the X-ecutive suite doing _____ things.
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@jhy001.bsky.social
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I deleted my Twitter account when #MuskRat took over. #Politics
Mastodon 👍, Post 👍, Tribel 👍, Bluesky 👍 , Twitter/X 👎, Threads 👎
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José Ignacio Suárez Armas 🦋
@milovetic.bsky.social
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zeptepe
@zeptepe.bsky.social
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I quit Twitter 6 months ago. Last week I clicked a link to Twitter and found that I had 50 new followers after 6 months of no activity. They were all bots pretending to be women. Fucking ridiculous.
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Rabbit
@plusonerabbit.bsky.social
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you can just say some shit like this and get swarmed by actual dozens of bots right now
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blonkus
@blonkus.bsky.social
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Matt Binder is there a way we can all give you five bucks every time you write an article that roasts this dipshit?
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@lesliejaylee.bsky.social
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My normal, long term account at X is mostly ok - but have experimented with a few alt accounts allowing the algorithms full control. It's insane - an ouroboros of blue-tickers posting over each other for view$, bots, subtle (and less subtle) hateful memes, unrelated posts in discussions. A cesspit!
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@elgrb.bsky.social
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I’m done with Txitter; haven’t been there in over a month. What a relief.
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NathanL75
@nathanl75.bsky.social
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Potemkin global village square
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Ryan Crinnigan
@spiritduplicator.bsky.social
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when he talked about eliminating bots from the very beginning it was a massive red flag, a giveaway that it would be sim city in the very near future
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Dr. Wombat
@aspyre.bsky.social
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Yay, my off the cuff estimates were correct!
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Paula Shaw St. James 🟦
@paula72.bsky.social
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Leave twitter
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Waterdrinker 💦 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@zattezwitser.bsky.social
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Just like it’s owner is fake
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𝚂𝙿𝙾𝚁𝙺𝙱𝙾𝙾𝚃
@sporkboot.bsky.social
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pretty funny going on twitter and seeing the first 12 responses to any large account being the exact same crypto scam from 12 different accounts
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Organic Cultivator
@organiccultivator.bsky.social
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Elmo suspended me for reposting spam/bot ads for “designer” bags in Linda Yaccarino’s mentions in order to alert them the platform was flooded with spam right before Christmas. Prolly permanent. I had ~255 followers & the posts averaged 8.2 views. Only a matter of time before I delete my account
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The Estrogen-Based Menace 🦑
@sexi-squidward.bsky.social
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I'm noticing an uptick on random names with the US flag 🇺🇲 next to their names that come across as Russian assets and bots. Also too many Elon simps. I was a morbidly obsessed teenybopper as a kid and I wasn't nearly as crazy as those people.
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PCNiles née Furyu
@pcniles.bsky.social
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The entire platform feels trashy now and absolutely fake. You can’t trust anything you see on there. It’s crashing.
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Blue Meme
@bluememe.bsky.social
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I’m sure Linda Yaccarino will get right on that, by re-tweeting a photo of a festive Superbowl-themed crudité plate.
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@saveamerica.bsky.social
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F*** Twitter I mean X I left once the white supremacist bought it
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Leo Lindberg
@postmanden1.bsky.social
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Banished from x-twitter for telling Elon Musk should die for his crimes against Ukraine....
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Ann Laabs 🏳️🌈
@annlaabs.bsky.social
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{pretends to be shocked}
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@lordbeerus.bsky.social
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Not a shock at all considering how badly Elon is running it and the amount of customers who have ended their advertising campaigns on twitter because of Elon
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Iain Shepherd
@lainshep.bsky.social
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Maybe it’s this “We haven’t worked all the bugs out yet” philosophy but applied to social media. The core problems that the field has worked on for years, that work was not from Elon and must be replaced with his own ideas (And he has no ideas beyond “make users pay for membership”)
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Bill Di Maria Rico
@bouncingship.bsky.social
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I was bot swarmed… I started getting violations for following too many people in a day. The limit for one day of following people on 𝕏 is 400. There’s no way I had the time to follow 400 people in one day. Being a paying customer and having this happen to me shows Elon Musk blows donkey balls.
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@caligulaca3sar.bsky.social
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I'm young enough to remember Elmo trying to negotiate the price he was going to have to pay for Twitter based on what he guess-timated to be the percentage of bot users. Pretty sure it's higher now.
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HOPP ☭
@paleo-comm.bsky.social
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Online bots and AI need to be regulated yesterday. Everyday I see a clearly AI shopped photo on FB with tons of boomers falling for it.
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Mike the Mad Biologist
@mikethemadbiol.bsky.social
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📌
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@doewnskitty.bsky.social
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lmao i remember thinking that it was eventually going to turn into "oops! all bots!" after musk took it over
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Garrett
@carsandkickoffs.bsky.social
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“GET LAUNCH IN MY PROFILE!”
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Jarrell lives in the woods
@jarrellwoods.bsky.social
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What a fricken joke X is
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@kiki
@kinetick.bsky.social
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Elon gotta keep some of that advertising money coming in somehow. Too many people have jumped that particularly morbid sinking ship.
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Weirdmage
@oleimsen.bsky.social
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It's almost like selling verification badges fascilitates fraudulent entities...
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toiosh.bsky.social
@toiosh.bsky.social
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he's willfully allowing them in so he can tell his advertisers he has traffic on his platform
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Tamara Keel
@tamslick.bsky.social
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Some billionaire should buy Twitter and vow to rid the site of bots.
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Alex
@thatsrite.bsky.social
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it continues to defy logic that any brand would spend money advertising on twitter these days... media planners are supposed to make data-driven decisions, and the data has undermined the value of advertising on twitter from the time elmo took over... literally just flushing cash down the toilet
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@electricchimp.bsky.social
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fascism is completely reliant on fraudulence
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SanMarcos 🍉🍒🚤🏭 Meme thief
@sanmarcos.bsky.social
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Wasn't Musk going to get rid of bots on Twitter?
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Dan "The Man" Levitan
@maxwellpeck.bsky.social
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Used to get a notification on Tw(sh)itter for a follow. Not anymore. I gained 50 followers in about 2 days and wasn't notified of any of them. Only "verified" followers warrant a notification. I blocked at least 75 accts, all of which "joined" in late 2023 and had a high following but few followers
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@bemoangamble.bsky.social
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The X owner is a beard. Always has been; always will be.
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@arp310.bsky.social
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X has become completely trash since Elon took over. It only seems to be a place for all the right wingers to hang out together.
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Blitz the Goddamn Dragon
@blitzthedragon.bsky.social
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Elon in 2022: "Twitter has a terrible bot problem, and I'm coming in to solve it once and for all!" Elon in 2024:
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Helen Kennedy
@helenkennedy.bsky.social
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I love that the guy says the results are so off the charts he hesitated to make them public.
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Alex
@alexkendziorski.bsky.social
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His war on bots is going about as well as you would expect.
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Bet or yet Road to 1k 🍥
@betyet.bsky.social
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X/Twitter is dead
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roundthewheel
@roundthewheel.bsky.social
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the word "legitimately" is doing a lot of heavy lifting on that link card
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Vibing my way out of shit and death 🍉
@wildheart-baby.bsky.social
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I mean, they say shocking, but is it actually shocking, maybe disappointing would be a better choice of word. Given what he's done to a formally relatively trustworthy platform, shocking isn't a word I'd use describing twitter.
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LaxOwl
@frederickocampo.bsky.social
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Dr Eggmusk
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Frostyfrog❄️🌨️
@frostyfrog.net
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And I bet all those advertisers paid Twitter for the bot visits... Or rather, Twitter charged them for the visits.
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Mark
@marksimploding.bsky.social
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Capitalism is making shit up and calling it value in order to scam your clients!
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Lee Schneider
@docuguy.bsky.social
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Bots?? On X-Twitter?
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Lil' Dookie
@potlandia.bsky.social
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All my bots are hot girls, HA
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Kalle Hermann
@karlheinzhermann.bsky.social
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If this also applies to advertisements, it is fraud.
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Lizardguy64
@lizardguy64.bsky.social
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At this point, anyone who doesn't instantly hate the site or Elon are absolutely bots.
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@benedictfox.bsky.social
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Strange… after all the courtroom fights about bots, I think I missed Elon declaring unconditional victory over the bots… almost like it was more bulljive.
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