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It's a silly argument though. If twitter knew all bots, they could easily remove them all. Because that isn't as easy, what they have is just an estimate. And
by takeda 4y ago
It's a silly argument though. If twitter knew all bots, they could easily remove them all.
Because that isn't as easy, what they have is just an estimate. And what makes Elon estimate any better than twitter's?
Elon figured out that he can make money by manipulating the market via twitter posts. An ability to control the platform would allow to have even more impact and it would be harder to prove that he had anything to do with it.
The purchase backfired his stock tanked (not just because of the purchase but other actions he did recently, he put me off and I was a huge fanboy before) so he is looking for excuse to get out.
- eloff 4y agoIt's one thing to estimate bots from a manually inspected sample. It's another entirely to detect all bots across all accounts.
- takeda 4y agoEven when doing it by hand it might not be easy. Also from personal experience I think whatever they are doing also has a lot of false positive. I managed to not have a twitter account for so many years, but created one as I wanted to post a response. I think it might worked once, now whenever I post something it just refuses (forgot exact message but essentially something that my post looks suspicious). I don't think I will be going back. That makes me believe they might be also losing many real users.