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Doesn't feel hollowed out to me personally. But there are way more bots. I'm sure they'll crackdown on that at some point

anonzzzies 3y ago
> I'm sure they'll crackdown on that at some point How? Only Blue can post + comment? Looking in my X experience, a lot of spammers are not afraid of paying. I see way too many obviously generated spam posts/comments from Blue users. What other ways are there?
acdha 3y ago
The problem with the bot crackdown ideas is that they mostly involve hiring people which Musk laid off (getting the boss to admit his mistake is never easy, and he’s more egotistical than average) and it’ll tank the numbers that their customers see. Advertisers like the idea of not paying for bot activity but they’re going to be paying less overall and if the numbers go down significantly some are going to argue for refunds because X wasn’t doing adequate bot control before. Similarly, people like to see high follower counts but if those drop precipitously when a new antispam is announced, it’s really going to contribute to the “this place is over” impression most of the remaining users already have.
jart 3y ago
What is all this noise about bots? I have 36k followers on Twitter. I'm on it all the time. I don't think I've ever seen a bot. What exactly do these bots do and how would you know they're bots?
- a_gnostic 3y ago
  > and how would you know they're bots? "If they disagree, they're bots. Also LLM, crypto, and ads."
- nickthegreek 3y ago
  Read the blue check replies on ANY popular tweet. If you dont see a bot, you dont want to see a bot.
  - jart 3y ago
    Oh that's probably why then. I'm allergic to anything popular. I'm blind to it like ad blindness. When I see it I'm like the way my cat slinks under the couch when the mail lady arrives. I like to use Twitter to hang out with ordinary developers and thinkers like myself. If I wanted celebrities I'd watch TV which I don't. When my own tweets go viral, I get a lot of "great job" or "real nice!" kind of replies. But I don't see why those wouldn't be real people.

anonzzzies 3y ago

> I'm sure they'll crackdown on that at some point How? Only Blue can post + comment? Looking in my X experience, a lot of spammers are not afraid of paying. I see way too many obviously generated spam posts/comments from Blue users. What other ways are there?

acdha 3y ago

The problem with the bot crackdown ideas is that they mostly involve hiring people which Musk laid off (getting the boss to admit his mistake is never easy, and he’s more egotistical than average) and it’ll tank the numbers that their customers see. Advertisers like the idea of not paying for bot activity but they’re going to be paying less overall and if the numbers go down significantly some are going to argue for refunds because X wasn’t doing adequate bot control before. Similarly, people like to see high follower counts but if those drop precipitously when a new antispam is announced, it’s really going to contribute to the “this place is over” impression most of the remaining users already have.

jart 3y ago

What is all this noise about bots? I have 36k followers on Twitter. I'm on it all the time. I don't think I've ever seen a bot. What exactly do these bots do and how would you know they're bots?

a_gnostic 3y ago
> and how would you know they're bots? "If they disagree, they're bots. Also LLM, crypto, and ads."
nickthegreek 3y ago
Read the blue check replies on ANY popular tweet. If you dont see a bot, you dont want to see a bot.
- jart 3y ago
  Oh that's probably why then. I'm allergic to anything popular. I'm blind to it like ad blindness. When I see it I'm like the way my cat slinks under the couch when the mail lady arrives. I like to use Twitter to hang out with ordinary developers and thinkers like myself. If I wanted celebrities I'd watch TV which I don't. When my own tweets go viral, I get a lot of "great job" or "real nice!" kind of replies. But I don't see why those wouldn't be real people.