Journalists are doing the world a serious disfavor by continuing to wank Elon off by using and reporting on a failed web company.
this post was submitted on 19 Aug 2023
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Half of the active user base are journalists and think tankers. So small wonder they are more interested than the general public.
He's such a child. A creepy, creepy child.
Is there a way to block content other than community and user yet? I'm getting really sick of hearing about Elon.
The best bet would be to make a feature request for a mobile client to add word/phrase filtering.
I’d just like to be able to block bot posts
You can disable seeing bots on Lemmy, in your settings. Not sure if this carries over to apps though.
I’ve heard this, I should log into the website and look. I use an app though
I mean, I’m not a bot, tho. 🤨
Sorry, I didn’t mean to imply that you were
You can in your settings.
Is stopthatgirl7 a bot?
I am most decidedly not. Just terminally online while I’m on a long vacation.
This girl has to be stopped!
Thank you. I was hoping you’re real - I enjoy all your posts!
Aww, thank you! I try to post things I think are interesting and other people will like.
I've just started blocking the user that posts it. Not the best solution, but it's cutting a lot of it out if my feed
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.
I call it the crazy girlfriend technique.
Is this important to anyone?
When you follow the money, yes. Users who register'share' the as adrevenue. You need to have a lot of exposure and followers to get the check written. Guess who's getting more money ...
Ah... I wasn't thinking about that.
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?
Loooookkkkk at meeeeeeeeeeee!!!!
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...
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.
He really likes to acquire things and then turn them into (e)Xes.
Why is this community obsessed with Twitter?
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
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.
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.
Oh yes, I'm always down to laugh at Elon. Kinda like watching streamers waste thousands of dollars on gacha games, I enjoy watching Elon burn through $44b worth of Twitter.
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.
Pure Schadenfreude
Someone's getting desperate!
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
Ya snooze ya lose 🤣( jk, jk)
You’re prolific! (And quick as a bullet lol)