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solarbirdLet’s get caught up on Musk Twitter. It’s fairly short but I wanted to get it cleared out.
CHEQ, the online market security company, reports that a stunning 75.85% of web traffic from Musk Twitter during the Superbowl was manufactured/bot content, rather than real content. This is versus the 1-3% from literally everywhere else they track.
Mashable has more details if you’re curious, though they’re from the same place.
I don’t know whether this includes Elon Musk’s latest sockpuppet account which exists to praise Elon, but with numbers like that, I don’t think it really matters.
I also wonder whether the sockpuppet account feels the same peer-pressure to use the same drugs Elon does, as reportedly so many of his executives do.
In somewhat older news:
Germany found a massive Russian bot propaganda op on Musk Twitter, specifically focused on undermining support for Ukraine’s defence against the Russian invasion. No word on whether Musk Twitter is going to do anything about it; they’ve refused, whenever they can.
FrameLab published a longish article over a year ago describing in specific steps how Elon Musk uses Twitter to promote far-right and fascist political causes and push their normalisation. I’ve never linked it, but I’ve talked about this since he took over the company, and maybe people will like it more from other people.
They describe specific techniques applied algorithmically to further his very clear aims. Like me, they’ve tried to get people to leave Twitter; like me, they’ve failed more than they’ve succeeded.
The longer people stay active on Twitter, the more likely it is that real advertisers will return.
Finally, Elon went Level 4 wingnut after his attempt to proclaim he Was Never An Anti-Semite by declaring himself Aspirationally Jewish. I’m not Jewish but I can’t not see Trump’s deeply racist commentary that he claims to have thought would actually attract Black voters as a direct parallel.
Remember, it’s always a good day to leave Twitter behind forever and take your followers with you!
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