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This might partially disappear with the nitter loophole closed but the number of bots under musk has gone up an order magnitude. I used to have 5 followers now
by nothercastle 3y ago
This might partially disappear with the nitter loophole closed but the number of bots under musk has gone up an order magnitude. I used to have 5 followers now I have anywhere from 70-100 depending on the day and I guarantee you I have not become more interesting. It’s all bots.
- dawnerd 3y agoWith nitter gone a lot of burner accounts are being created which no doubt they’re going to claim as a metric win. I’m running my own scraper with a lot of burner accounts. They can’t stop us from scraping.
- mhio 3y agoHow does nitter increase ad traffic?
- nicolas_17 3y agoMalicious bots using the same technique as nitter to get into the site, and X blocking them will affect both.
- viraptor 3y agoWhy do you think nitter going away will change anything? I would expect the set of users purposefully using nitter to be completely contained in the set of users with adblock on.
- nothercastle 3y agoOther people are using the same technique for nafarious purposes so they will at least have to change techniques
- viraptor 3y agoI don't get what you mean here. Same technique as in loading the website? If there's money to be made, you have so many more options including paying people to register real accounts. Nitter does not have the same available motivation / resources as people who run serious scams.
- nothercastle 3y agoSpammers will need to generate fake accounts to scrape using a different method than before. It may be more expensive but I doubt it’s prohibitively expensive