Elon Musk's X follower count bloated by millions of new, inactive accounts
Elon Musk's X follower count bloated by millions of new, inactive accounts
We took a close look at Elon Musk's more than 150 million followers on X aka Twitter. What we found is…concerning.
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Elon: "There are too many fake accounts for me to seriously consider buying this company."
Also Elon, after creating millions of inactive accounts to follow himself: "Please clap."
So he’s in the “fake it till you make it” phase. “If we pretend there’s trillions using our service, surely trillions of real users will eventually come! 👍”
Only 7 generations if we double every time. Gotta pump up those population numbers by getting mars started and by getting rid of birth control.
Probably an engineer that was threatened with being fired if he doesn't figure out how to get Musk millions of new followers.
So wait, he's stooped to being a shitty copy of Steve "spez" Huffman?
It’s the other way around. Spez is trying real hard to emulate the muskrat.
No, Spez used fake users to make Reddit seem bigger than it was back when it started. He discusses this in an online course.
Can this sub shut the fuck up about this joker for a day or two? Pathetic.
It's like watching a train wreck in slow motion. I just can't look away!
I haven't tried them myself yet, but there are filters you can use to prevent specific topics/keywords from entering your feed.
It's enjoyable to hear about his continual and repeated fuck ups. All publicity is not good publicity.
When you register, Twitter/X asks you to follow a popular account. He is one of then. The problem is that maybe those accounts are used once to see Twitter content and then forgotten. They could be used to login in a different website. I don't doubt that he has many bots following him, but inactive bots are useless.
I have to wonder if he complained to the devs that his posts didn’t get enough impressions so they should update or “fix” the algorithm. Turned out it was easier to fake a change and he’s just now learning that he got tricked?
It feels like he's covering up some type of crime more than anything
🤣🤣 rich people have their own problems
Personally I've seen more bot activity after his takeover than before, which is strange considering his talk about bots.
Not surprising to see. A lot of accounts are not active.
Applies probably to all users. I'm getting a shit ton of bot followers aswell and have been for like half a year. I believe they're getting deleted on regular basis since my follower count isn't really growing despite the constant flow of new subscribtions. This isn't something that's just affecting Musk.
This is reach Kim levels.
Poor chump.
It would be probably cheaper and much better for the world to set up something like this for Elon, where everything is exactly how he wants it.
He strikes me as the kind of guy who has someone sent to him to be fired daily so he can feel important, and at this point they just hire an actor each day to be the victim