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Since he has realized the risk of using Tesla stock to back this purchase - he has acquired investors. Investors will want returns on their investment other tha
by strangattractor 4y ago
Since he has realized the risk of using Tesla stock to back this purchase - he has acquired investors. Investors will want returns on their investment other than "Free Speech" BS. Some of the things he is proposing will hurt Twatter financially like shutting down bots. It is those very same bots that give the impression that Twitter is influential. Hence he will either not be able to deliver his promises or he will find some excuse not to buy.
- arcticbull 4y agoAlso, bot detection is a quixotic quest. If it were that easy they'd have done it by now.
- strangattractor 4y agoI once worked for a non-profit no less that was trying to use "Article Views" as a new metric to rank academic articles. I did some simple things to filter out some rather obvious bots. Nothing fancy. That reduced the page views %75. Needless to say even the Non-Profit was seduced buy the inflated numbers hoping it would attract more authors. Followers=BullSh*T
- johannes1234321 4y agoWould they? - Bots drive engagement.
- croes 4y agoSo investors like bots and getting rid of the bots is a bad idea
- erik_seaberg 4y agoAdvertisers hate bots. As a user I only hate spammers (which are mostly beggars), but some users worry about bots because they want to believe Twitter can be representative of voters.
- croes 4y agoAdvertisers != investors
- strangattractor 4y agoDo they? What evidence? What kind of engagement? Is it the type you want?
- stjohnswarts 4y agoAlso his tesla stock has decreased 40% so now his initial offer of stocks is costing him a lot more in sheer number. I love every minute of it.