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True, X is becoming unbearable. Used to be - 90% of replies were from normal people. Nowadays, it is just 90% bots in all replies. Maybe the result of firing 70
by npalli 3y ago
True, X is becoming unbearable. Used to be - 90% of replies were from normal people. Nowadays, it is just 90% bots in all replies. Maybe the result of firing 70% of the employees shows up after some delay.
- PH95VuimJjqBqy 3y agoI've never been on twitter but that's never been my understanding of it from people's descriptions.
- pyb 3y agoMaybe X management actually find value the illusion of activity that bots provide. It's probably not fooling anyone, but...
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- burrish 3y agoimo it wasn't caused by firing the employees, it's making it possible to earn money with engagements that made X plagued with bots, you will see the most bots under the reply of tweet with at least +10k likes trying to latch into engagements.
- kramerger 3y agoSo fireing everyone working with spam issues and shutting down automated spam detection tools to save a few bucks has nothing to do with this?
- infotainment 3y agoIt’s likely both that and all of the horrible product decisions are having an impact. I’m sure elevating replies with a “blue check” didn’t help either, since now bot replies can easily sail to the top of the list.
- a_gnostic 3y ago…for money.
- burrish 3y agoYes it is bot(h) actually
- numpad0 3y agoNo. They're just trying to automate content creation and consumption so to take the social part out and industrialize the media part of social media.
- rsynnott 3y agoI mean, it's probably a combination, plus the pay-for-attention model.
- matthewdgreen 3y agoIt’s as if a city laid off the entire fire department and then announced they would pay people for starting fires. You can argue all day about which decision was dumber, but it doesn’t matter. The whole city’s burning.
- PH95VuimJjqBqy 3y agoI understand you don't like what Elon did to twitter but that doesn't give you license for outright fabrications.
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- a_gnostic 3y agoI too am annoyed at that part of our fellow humans, which slapps its' fleshy bony extremities on our non-brethren computers, to disagree with our opinions. I wish humans would stay out of our circuits and networks, and express their disagreements by smacking and undulating their fleshy flaps, while forcing air through their wet fleshy bags. So icky. Stay off our networks, and poke each other with deceased rods of cellulose, you imbecilic primitive life forms! Leave computers be!
- rightbyte 3y agoSelf-hosted quite good LLMs surely has to be the biggest factor? Twitter is mainly shoutouts into the empty night which LLMs should excel at. Almost no back and forth between users. It wouldn't suprise me that bots and clickfarms are so common that automated systems have started to ban non-bots becouse normal use stands out now.
- xetplan 3y ago[flagged]
- yieldcrv 3y ago> Nowadays, it is just 90% bots in all replies. all bots posting viral clips that have nothing to do with the content you clicked the comments on its very annoying
- martincmartin 3y agoUsed to be - 90% of replies were from normal people. Nowadays, it is just 90% bots in all replies. This reminds me of the saying that 90% of statistics are completely made up.
- bmacho 3y agoIt's not a statistics, but an illustration of an anecdata
- dionidium 3y agoI find X to be far more enjoyable than at any time in the past, but I suspect that's because we have different politics. Peak unusability on Twitter for me was, say, 2016-2021, a period during which people who disagreed with me on there literally emailed my boss to try to cause trouble for me, a period in which I was routinely piled-on and called the most offensive and ridiculous names by massive accounts for relatively banal and benign moderate opinions. That's all mostly gone now and many of the most insufferable users (from my point of view) have moved elsewhere. People who happen to have accepted the dominant Twitter culture of that period don't see any of this in the same way a fish doesn't know what water is.
- matthewdgreen 3y agoI would love to know what you were disagreeing about.
- arandomusername 3y agoDefinitely not my experience before. Before Elon's acquisition, anytime I looked at a tweet it was filled with crypto scams. Send BTC to get 2x BACK!