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This is a well-reasoned comment and shouldn't be flagged. Twitter pre-Elon was 100% a 'bots on the other side' era, though I maintain bots are equal opportunity
by ethagknight 2y ago
This is a well-reasoned comment and shouldn't be flagged. Twitter pre-Elon was 100% a 'bots on the other side' era, though I maintain bots are equal opportunity egregious today.
"We chose to focus on X because it’s a platform where there are a lot of political conversations."
Yea convenient.... not reddit? Facebook? Or any of the others. What they are trying to do is obvious.
- anigbrowl 2y agoTwitter pre-Elon was 100% a 'bots on the other side' era. No it wasn't. I have many studies about Twitter botnets (which have dried up since Musk put streaming/search API behind a staggeringly expensive paywall, probably by design) and there just weren't any left-oriented bot farms of note.
- ethagknight 2y agoWe must have been using different Twitters? Can you link to these studies?
- anigbrowl 2y ago[flagged]
- ethagknight 2y agoI just skimmed through the first 5 results on Google. All say that political bots on twitter are significant problems. You say "there just weren't any left-oriented bot farms of note," I do not see that conclusion, and it really doesnt logically follow, unless you subscribe to "only the bad bots are bots" mentality.
- saagarjha 2y agoNobody liked the bots from pre-Elon Musk either. There were just fewer of them.