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I follow a handful of people and read some of the answers to their tweets and I don't think I've seen any that were obviously bots or AI generated spam. And spa

I follow a handful of people and read some of the answers to their tweets and I don't think I've seen any that were obviously bots or AI generated spam. And spam (usually for NFT or similar crap) has gone down since last year, at least in the areas of Twitter I frequent. I'm not saying that it's the case everywhere on the platform, but at least for me the 'quality' of tweets hasn't gone down

poulpy123 3y ago
I personally see more bot and spam, but except for a month or two at the beginning, they are detected and deleted pretty quickly. I've seen a huge surge of clickbait tweets since the monetization of bluecheck accounts but that's not the same. The note feature is great for the moment
bananapub 3y ago
my counter-anecdote is that it's far worse than fifteen months ago and I'm reporting dozens of cryptocurrency scammers - both regular blue tick garbage replies, as well as blue ticks paying for ads - a day.
ganeshkrishnan 3y ago
Quality of tweets has actually become better over the last year. Even in the last few weeks, most of the get rich schemes are correctly tagged as spam and hidden. Also x traffic has risen over any other social media.. Not sure how abc made the judgement
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- hereme888 3y ago
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  - dorkwood 3y ago
    I think he's great. He's the only person on the planet who's been able to deliver us full self-driving cars. So many said it wasn't even possible with current technology, and yet you can go on their website right now and purchase one. Simply incredible.
    - rsynnott 3y ago
      And you can even choose to have them delivered to your home on Mars! Such convenience.
    - hereme888 3y ago
      Even your benign comment got down-voted. The hatred and intolerance of this NPC army knows no end.
- nickthegreek 3y ago
  >Also x traffic has risen over any other social media Citation? Threads is trouncing it in mobile downloads, young people got to tiktok not x.
thatjoeoverthr 3y ago
Same for me. Everyone interesting is on there. It's lively and I like it.
faefox 3y ago
I'd be curious to know exactly who you're following. I maintain a very small Twitter presence and literally any tweet from any modestly-visible public account will have at least a handful of bot replies. These tend to be one of the following: * Artificial (LLM-generated) engagement * Crypto scams (usually one bot asking for a link to the latest money-making trick and another bot replying) * The now-infamous "M Y _ _ _ _ _ I N B I O") Additionally I've noticed that almost without exception every ad Twitter has served me for the past few months has been for an AI-generated drop shipping site hawking the same handful of AliExpress products. I can't remember the last time I got an ad for anything resembling a major brand.
- JeremyNT 3y ago
  I don't use Twitter/X directly but I still follow some people (who exclusively post on that site) indirectly via Nitter. It's absolutely awful. I've seen spam replies that are actively pornography, presumably onlyfans spam. I quickly closed the tab. Maybe crypto spam is down as that bubble has burst but AI spam and OF spam seems to be up. I can't understand people saying it's better now. Maybe it's some sort of stockholm syndrome. I keep hoping the holdouts I follow on Nitter will switch to any other platform, or at least crosspost before Nitter dies completely.
  - dionidium 3y ago
    > I can't understand people saying it's better now. Those things are all bad, but they're fairly easy to ignore. I much prefer random sexbot spam to the hysterical culture that was ascendant on Twitter in, say, 2018. I think how much one misses that era probably just comes down to one's politics. For me, it was miserable. I have a pretty thick skin and I enjoy the fray, so let's stipulate that there have always been assholes and jerks saying offensive and insulting things, but the word I'd use to characterize the progressive milieu of 2018 was menacing. "Wow, interesting unconventional opinion on #metoo you've got there. Sure would be a shame if I found you on LinkedIn and sent it to your boss. Wonder what she'd think of it." I couldn't be happier that those kinds of interactions have become less frequent.
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stephen_g 3y ago
I visit Twitter every now and then, seems like smaller accounts are fine, I guess the people running the bots don't care about them. But for tweets by larger accounts (public figures etc.) the replies have become a sewer for many the ones I see.
sinuhe69 3y ago
The same for me. After the news of Sora, I went in and didn’t see much spam at all. A cursory look seems to reveal genuine humans reactions. The same for the hotly debated statements of LeCun and other big names in AI. Due to the hype for AI, I thought such accounts will be followed inevitably by lot of spammers, if any. But it seems not the case at all.
- matthewdgreen 3y ago
  "AI Twitter" (whereby I mean, a few major AI celebrities and the AI-interested non-researcher community, which is largely concerned with AI risk) seems to be one of the few communities that robustly stuck with Twitter, maybe correlated with the fact that Elon Musk purports to take their concerns seriously. Lots of other scientific communities have vanished or thinned out. Even cryptocurrency Twitter seems to have lost a lot of the technical folks.
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numpad0 3y ago
I'm kind of suspecting someone wants this "vacant" mental image to stick because Twitter has been such a culturally invasive money pit with enormous inertia, the userbase seem to have bit of spidey sense when it comes to exploiting freemiums.
apercu 3y ago
It's almost as if those that respect and like Elon Musk and, "Alpha" dudes and "Libertarians" think Twitter is great, and those that aren't fans of the aforementioned don't.
- tim333 3y ago
  I quite like twitter and currently think Musk is being a jerk.

poulpy123 3y ago

I personally see more bot and spam, but except for a month or two at the beginning, they are detected and deleted pretty quickly. I've seen a huge surge of clickbait tweets since the monetization of bluecheck accounts but that's not the same. The note feature is great for the moment

bananapub 3y ago

my counter-anecdote is that it's far worse than fifteen months ago and I'm reporting dozens of cryptocurrency scammers - both regular blue tick garbage replies, as well as blue ticks paying for ads - a day.

ganeshkrishnan 3y ago

Quality of tweets has actually become better over the last year. Even in the last few weeks, most of the get rich schemes are correctly tagged as spam and hidden. Also x traffic has risen over any other social media.. Not sure how abc made the judgement

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hereme888 3y ago
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- dorkwood 3y ago
  I think he's great. He's the only person on the planet who's been able to deliver us full self-driving cars. So many said it wasn't even possible with current technology, and yet you can go on their website right now and purchase one. Simply incredible.
  - rsynnott 3y ago
    And you can even choose to have them delivered to your home on Mars! Such convenience.
  - hereme888 3y ago
    Even your benign comment got down-voted. The hatred and intolerance of this NPC army knows no end.
nickthegreek 3y ago
>Also x traffic has risen over any other social media Citation? Threads is trouncing it in mobile downloads, young people got to tiktok not x.

thatjoeoverthr 3y ago

Same for me. Everyone interesting is on there. It's lively and I like it.

faefox 3y ago

I'd be curious to know exactly who you're following. I maintain a very small Twitter presence and literally any tweet from any modestly-visible public account will have at least a handful of bot replies. These tend to be one of the following: * Artificial (LLM-generated) engagement * Crypto scams (usually one bot asking for a link to the latest money-making trick and another bot replying) * The now-infamous "M Y _ _ _ _ _ I N B I O") Additionally I've noticed that almost without exception every ad Twitter has served me for the past few months has been for an AI-generated drop shipping site hawking the same handful of AliExpress products. I can't remember the last time I got an ad for anything resembling a major brand.

JeremyNT 3y ago
I don't use Twitter/X directly but I still follow some people (who exclusively post on that site) indirectly via Nitter. It's absolutely awful. I've seen spam replies that are actively pornography, presumably onlyfans spam. I quickly closed the tab. Maybe crypto spam is down as that bubble has burst but AI spam and OF spam seems to be up. I can't understand people saying it's better now. Maybe it's some sort of stockholm syndrome. I keep hoping the holdouts I follow on Nitter will switch to any other platform, or at least crosspost before Nitter dies completely.
- dionidium 3y ago
  > I can't understand people saying it's better now. Those things are all bad, but they're fairly easy to ignore. I much prefer random sexbot spam to the hysterical culture that was ascendant on Twitter in, say, 2018. I think how much one misses that era probably just comes down to one's politics. For me, it was miserable. I have a pretty thick skin and I enjoy the fray, so let's stipulate that there have always been assholes and jerks saying offensive and insulting things, but the word I'd use to characterize the progressive milieu of 2018 was menacing. "Wow, interesting unconventional opinion on #metoo you've got there. Sure would be a shame if I found you on LinkedIn and sent it to your boss. Wonder what she'd think of it." I couldn't be happier that those kinds of interactions have become less frequent.
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stephen_g 3y ago

I visit Twitter every now and then, seems like smaller accounts are fine, I guess the people running the bots don't care about them. But for tweets by larger accounts (public figures etc.) the replies have become a sewer for many the ones I see.

sinuhe69 3y ago

The same for me. After the news of Sora, I went in and didn’t see much spam at all. A cursory look seems to reveal genuine humans reactions. The same for the hotly debated statements of LeCun and other big names in AI. Due to the hype for AI, I thought such accounts will be followed inevitably by lot of spammers, if any. But it seems not the case at all.

matthewdgreen 3y ago
"AI Twitter" (whereby I mean, a few major AI celebrities and the AI-interested non-researcher community, which is largely concerned with AI risk) seems to be one of the few communities that robustly stuck with Twitter, maybe correlated with the fact that Elon Musk purports to take their concerns seriously. Lots of other scientific communities have vanished or thinned out. Even cryptocurrency Twitter seems to have lost a lot of the technical folks.

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numpad0 3y ago

I'm kind of suspecting someone wants this "vacant" mental image to stick because Twitter has been such a culturally invasive money pit with enormous inertia, the userbase seem to have bit of spidey sense when it comes to exploiting freemiums.

apercu 3y ago

It's almost as if those that respect and like Elon Musk and, "Alpha" dudes and "Libertarians" think Twitter is great, and those that aren't fans of the aforementioned don't.

tim333 3y ago
I quite like twitter and currently think Musk is being a jerk.