This seems like a lot. theguardian.com/media/article/…
Advertiser exodus from X gathers pace with 26% ‘planning to cut spending’
Annual survey highlights growing concern about platform content and trust in information disseminatedMark Sweney (The Guardian)
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in reply to Tim Chambers • •@Tim Chambers tangentially related: I shudder every time I read in the press that Elon Musk has "almost 200 million followers" – they should write "allegedly" instead because I bet 80% of them are bots.
Actually I just ran an audit (via twitteraudit) and 93.3% of his followers are low quality.
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in reply to ⁂ Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •@elena And that's just "low quality" in the sense of "bot but don't sue me for libel".
The other 6.7% are low quality too in the sense of "poor enough taste to follow Elon".
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in reply to ⁂ Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •Before he bought the site, he had something like 6 million followers.
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in reply to CassandraVert • •@CassandraVert Wow! 🤯
And it’s so pathetic that he had his engineers change the algorithm to artificially boost the visibility of his posts
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