I'm solving the bot problem on X, trust me. BTW have you seen our numbers during the Super Bowl?
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But but Saint Elon said he purged the bots and it's all 100 authentic now.
I mean it's painfully obvious. Go on that fucking site and look at any moderately popular post, it's bots talking to bots talking to bots, all repeating the same nonsense at each other with blue checks next to their name. Often the main post they're commenting under was generated as well.
Dead internet theory in action
You’re telling me the number 1 treatfest and ad deluge wasn’t entirely organic???
"I live by the entrepreneur's code: 'Fake it until you make it unusable!'
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What do you mean that's not part of that slogan?"
a dying social media platform for a dying empire
looking into it
How does that compare to the majority of Twitter traffic the rest of the time?
I saw a comparison to last year's superbowl (a few months after musk bought it) at ~3% bot traffic.
Bot percentages for this past month (January) were ~30%
In Soviet China
But daddy Elon said he got rid of the big bad bots. Clearly these new ones must be AI who’ve achieved sentience through the X’s superior, incredibly based and pilled engineering.