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Elon Musk's X follower count bloated by millions of new, inactive accounts (mashable.com)
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We took a close look at Elon Musk's more than 150 million followers on X aka Twitter. What we found is…concerning.

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[–] 17 points 3 years ago (1 child)

Because whether we like it or not, Twitter is still a major force in the overall internet space. Twitter is still one of the top 10 most used websites around the world, so what they do is news.

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  • [–] [S] 9 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    And dumb shit Elon does with it has repercussions. Just look at Reddit deciding to charge ridiculous amounts for API use as a way to kill 3rd party apps not long after Twitter did it.

    Although honestly, I just shared this because I cracked the entire fuck up at most of Elon’s followers being bots and inactive users and wanted other folks to point and laugh with me.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    They did it to stop chat gpt from scraping them. They absolutely used it to kill 3rs party apps to drive more users to their own app. But let's be serious here. They were protecting their repository of community collected and curated information. Like. I absolutely think Spez was all "win win" when they came up with this.

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