This. You wouldn’t believe how much tweets from Japanese news outlets are now being spammed from verified accounts in Nigeria trying to boost their impression counts. Wasn’t a problem before Elon came along.
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I encourage you to get a Neuralink chip and hop on board one of his rocketsSo long he's a closer to being a trillionaire than anyone here.
He knows what he is doing.
I'd not be surprised if he died on Mars.
I admire his business decisions that benefits his shareholders, customers and unproblematic subordiantes.
Him and his team knows what their doing from a business and programming sense, after all X is a SaaS business just like any other social media service app ans content.
Personally I think he's acutely focused on giving a largee voice and presence to a particular Arc of the swing so speak vs the entire pendulum. Men, he still knows what he's doing.
That said this marketing garbage is a per insult to basic intelligence...
I .Ean how does valid users paying anything stop from Bots doing anything or existing??!! It doesn't this is just. Acash swindle and another icon on users forehead (like kindergarten stickers lol)
He's admitting defeat of stopping all bots. Having an AI with human follow-up would kill bots.
I'm so glad I got a Bluesky invite. So I'm set for when this platform does go belly up from Elon's shenanigans.
So you guys actually think this is about "bots" and not about Elon trying to make Twitter somewhat financially viable with the enormous amount he overpaid?
X/Twitter is still a better platform than Facebook and Instagram. Keep it up, Elon.
I fully expect this test to be a failure, only for it to be spun as a success by Elon and be brought to every country immediately
Honestly that’s it for me, it will suck having to convince my 30k followers to follow me elsewhere but I just can’t bear the thought of giving that man even a single dollar a year
Also the spam bot operators and jumping in joy at the idea of only needing 1 dollar a year
If even one person falls for one of the crypto scams they push they’re basically paying the bill to operate for 8 millennia
This is about Elon trying to recoup the massive loss he took buying twitter on a whim to boost his ego and nothing more, I wish he’d be honest about it
Honestly that’s it for me, it will suck having to convince my 30k followers to follow me elsewhere but I just can’t bear the thought of giving that man even a single dollar a year
Also the spam bot operators and jumping in joy at the idea of only needing 1 dollar a year
If even one person falls for one of the crypto scams they push they’re basically paying the bill to operate for 8 millennia
This is about Elon trying to recoup the massive loss he took buying twitter on a whim to boost his ego and nothing more, I wish he’d be honest about it
If you want to know the politics of the majority of the posters in this forum, just read this topic and it’s ver clear. Zzzzzzzzzz
I don’t think the goal is to prevent bots, it’s to profit from them. If a bots master creates 100,000 new bots for one reason or another, they’ll fork over the 100,000 money units. If those bots are effective, the next time the bots master may purchase a million. And, again, 1 million money units.
Advertisers don’t appear to be returning, the only money left is in charging the bots that are still coming while there’s millions of eyes still looking.
If I was paralyzed, had Parkinson’s, etc I’d be first to line up for that chip tech
I also put my name on that mars colony list years back
His progress with rocket and space tech is remarkably better than that of .gov
There are things worse than death, living in fear is one
Elon knows what he’s doing… in terms of sabotaging the site, that is.
Lets remember that Elon tried to back out from buying Twitter before being forced to go through with it. Any decisions he makes that makes the site worse is 100% deliberate.
Lets remember that Elon tried to back out from buying Twitter before being forced to go through with it. Any decisions he makes that makes the site worse is 100% deliberate.
Yes, Musk tried to back out but why would be want to deliberately run the company in the ground through his own post-purchase business decisions, intentionally want to be part of such a high profile business failure, jeopardize billions of dollars of Morgan Stanley, Bank of America, Barclays, etc. money, and so on?
If you think the only options are "Elon knows what he's doing" or the death of X, I can't help you.
A lot of people have the "Elon is a billionaire, so he must be a genius" narrative. Unfortunately, Elon might too. It could be as simple as he's not smart enoguh to handle the power he's gained from being the richest guy in the world.
and normal people are coming back after they found threads and mastodon being complete utter **** places to post. one notable tech YouTuber even came back because he wanted the ad revenue share.
problem is the human follow-up. there are billions of tweets that would need human follow-up. not scalable.
bots sound easy to defeat but when you actually start working on it, it's difficult.
That’s a very good question, but it depends on if we assume he’s legitimately trying and is simply incompetent, in which case he shouldn’t be in that position of power. Or if we assume he is doing it on purpose out of spite or malice, if not from just being an emotionally-unstable egomaniac who can’t control himself and makes terrible decisions on a whim. Or several of those factors, really.