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It doesn't feel like that to me. Elon reported that Twitter hit a new all time high of "user seconds" last week. Reddit usage doesn't seem to have gone down muc
by olalonde 3y ago
It doesn't feel like that to me. Elon reported that Twitter hit a new all time high of "user seconds" last week. Reddit usage doesn't seem to have gone down much. In my opinion, what you are really experiencing is wishful thinking.
- aquova 3y agoIt's going to be hard to continue hitting record highs if you're limiting how much of your content people are able to see.
- olalonde 3y agoThat's probably why the limits are temporary.
- user_named 3y agoThey're not temporary they're indefinite
- lljk_kennedy 3y agoHow is user seconds defined?
- faefox 3y agoElon says a lot of things, like last fall when he was crowing about how Twitter had the bot problem licked. Fast forward to today and bot spam is worse than ever before. You can believe what you want. I choose to believe what I see with my eyes.
- peytoncasper 3y agoI’m not taking a side of whether Elon is right or wrong. However, you mentioned that today is an admission that the bot problem is worse. However that not true, the restrictions are specifically on viewing data (scrapers) rather than creating data (bots).
- x1ph0z 3y ago| Elon reported that Twitter hit a new all time high of "user seconds" last week I’m not inclined to take Elon’s words at face value, he has an incentive to pump any statistic that makes it seem Twitter is growing.
- hbn 3y agoThat's pretty much majority of data science at tech companies. Stakeholders want numbers that make things look good, not accurate or useful numbers.
- ncallaway 3y ago> Elon reported that Twitter hit a new all time high of "user seconds" last week. A famously trustworthy source.
- optionalsquid 3y agoDoesn't the current situation imply that a lot of those users were bots/scrapers?
- paulmd 3y agoI don’t have an account so all my interactions with twitter are via discord bots. I don’t know where that falls into scraping vs bots but I ain’t an organic user from their perspective. In theory the goal would be to push people like me to register and get an account to at least view, and force me into their platform/ecosystem so I can be measure and monetized. Unfortunately, much like ape pics, printscreen key exists and people will simply pivot to posting png’s of twitter instead of direct linking
- lawn 3y agoHow many times must Elon lie before people stop taking is word as truth?