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:
https://mashable.com/article/x-twitter-elon-musk-bots-fake-traffic
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:
https://mashable.com/article/x-twitter-elon-musk-bots-fake-traffic
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I also suspect that Musk is not stopping this because it is the only way he can show user growth and CTR above zero for the few remaining advertisers.
#Fraud
“Somebody get Elon off the roof again …”
"Check my pinned for details!"
And it's a bullshit crypto profile.
This doesn't even get to all of the porn bots or the crypto bots
It just became a slog. It's like, "why I am doing all of this work for little reward, since the site is now mostly Nazis yelling about how much they hate Jews and want to kill everyone.
Mastodon 👍, Post 👍, Tribel 👍, Bluesky 👍 , Twitter/X 👎, Threads 👎
Also too many Elon simps. I was a morbidly obsessed teenybopper as a kid and I wasn't nearly as crazy as those people.
It’s crashing.
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”)
(and as for future numbers, who cares)
I’d say boil ‘em to be on the safe side.
Elon in 2024:
Given what he's done to a formally relatively trustworthy platform, shocking isn't a word I'd use describing twitter.