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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[–] 103 points 3 years ago (1 child)

Journalists are doing the world a serious disfavor by continuing to wank Elon off by using and reporting on a failed web company.

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  • [–] 51 points 3 years ago

    He's such a child. A creepy, creepy child.

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  • [–] 34 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    Is there a way to block content other than community and user yet? I'm getting really sick of hearing about Elon.

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  • [–] 11 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Sync for Lemmy has keyword filtering:

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  • [–] 11 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    The best bet would be to make a feature request for a mobile client to add word/phrase filtering.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    I’d just like to be able to block bot posts

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  • [–] [S] 6 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    I am most decidedly not. Just terminally online while I’m on a long vacation.

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  • [–] 25 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

    This man is incorporating the same tactic that Trump has during his presidency: launch a psychopathic publicity stunt nearly every day, to get as much media coverage as possible. Negative attention is attention too, they don’t care. They just want to be talked about as much as possible and they seem to be doing an excellent job at accomplishing that.

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  • [–] 11 points 3 years ago

    We took a close look at Elon Musk's more than 150 million followers on X aka Twitter. What we found is…concerning.

    Is it though?

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  • [+] 10 points 3 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
    [–] 9 points 3 years ago*

    It's most likely scraper bots.

    Twitter has started blocking no-login view of many parts and now every scraper is loging in to collect this data and Elon is either being automatically followed or suggested for new accounts.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 years ago

    Elon forced everyone to follow him, so of course bots would follow him. It's strange to make an article about something that's already widely-known as if it was a discovery or something...

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago

    He really likes to acquire things and then turn them into (e)Xes.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    Why is this community obsessed with Twitter?

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  • [–] 38 points 3 years ago

    I think it’s more obsessed with musk. It’s hard to not watch a train wreck as it’s happening and it’s also astounding that people can’t seem to leave Twitter for the better places

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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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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago

    that's pretty much the case for all celeb accounts tbqh

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I saw this posted to 2 othe communities scrolling down and thought “oh I’d better repost this to ‘technology’!

    You beat me again! Lol

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    Someone's getting desperate!

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