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imo 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

imo 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 ago
So 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 ago
  It’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 ago
  Yes it is bot(h) actually
- numpad0 3y ago
  No. 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 ago
I mean, it's probably a combination, plus the pay-for-attention model.
matthewdgreen 3y ago
It’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 ago
  I 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 ago
I 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!

kramerger 3y ago

So 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 ago
It’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 ago
Yes it is bot(h) actually
numpad0 3y ago
No. 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 ago

I mean, it's probably a combination, plus the pay-for-attention model.

matthewdgreen 3y ago

It’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 ago
I 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 ago

I 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!