Elon Musk’s X follower count bloated by millions of new, inactive accounts::undefined

  • Shazbot@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Elon: “There are too many fake accounts for me to seriously consider buying this company.”

    Also Elon, after creating millions of inactive accounts to follow himself: “Please clap.”

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    1 year ago

    So he’s in the “fake it till you make it” phase. “If we pretend there’s trillions using our service, surely trillions of real users will eventually come! 👍”

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    1 year ago

    So wait, he’s stooped to being a shitty copy of Steve “spez” Huffman?

  • SoyTDI@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    When you register, Twitter/X asks you to follow a popular account. He is one of then. The problem is that maybe those accounts are used once to see Twitter content and then forgotten. They could be used to login in a different website. I don’t doubt that he has many bots following him, but inactive bots are useless.

  • sugarfree@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Personally I’ve seen more bot activity after his takeover than before, which is strange considering his talk about bots.

    • MyNameIsIgglePiggle@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      He strikes me as the kind of guy who has someone sent to him to be fired daily so he can feel important, and at this point they just hire an actor each day to be the victim