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[–] • 10 pts

I'd like to see a random check of 500 Reddit accounts and see how many are bots.

[–] • 1 pt

Most major websites are full of bots and fake shit. The only way to get authentic internet is to stay on smaller websites where major players won't invest the time/effort to create bots and the owners of the website doesn't have the resources to make fake content.

[–] • 2 pts

The u.s. must really be broke if its winding down one of its key propaganda outlets used to influence public opinion.

[–] • 2 pts

They are just rebranding. You can trust the new and improved Twitter, we swear it is legit.

[–] [deleted] • 1 pt

What does this actually mean? What's the implication?

[–] [deleted] • 7 pts

It means Twitter has more bots than they claim.

[–] [deleted] • 0 pt

How's so?

[–] [deleted] • 5 pts

Because they are lying assholes.

[–] • 2 pts (edited )

The question is WHY not how. how is through farming ...using "dead" cellphones that aren't assigned to an actual person but a system that they use to manipulate things like voting, opinion mirroring , and follower count.

If this is true and out of 100 say 40 are bots..that small sample could mean that 40% of ALL twitter users are fake and are just phones in rooms. Since the chinese mfg these it'd be minimal cost to them to mfg an extra say 10 million accounts and sway social conversation, normalcies, drive policy "chatter" and get the 60% to believe that they're reading thoughts, ideas, and expressions .. I believe Musk's message here is that Twitter , KNOWING that most of their "users" are just bots ONLY test 100 accounts. If I had to guess I'd say that it's the same 95 time after time and then 5 randoms. From that they derive their data....knowing that it's flawed and faulty in it's methodology.

As far as the bid goes, the bid was made on an evaluation. If that evaluation can be PROVEN to be deliberately false, then Elon would destroy the credibility of Twitter / all Social media even ...AND get him out of that ONE BILLION dollar clause that's in place if either party back out of their handshake deal.

[–] • 1 pt

Manipulation of statistical samples based on size of the sample. They also know who is human so they can control the sample.

[–] • 3 pts

With a claimed user base of hundreds of millions, sampling a hundred accounts to test for bot percentage is a joke.

Suggests they want to conceal the true percentage or conveniently don't really want to know themselves.

[–] • 3 pts (edited )

It means that their "bots are only 5% of users on Twitter" that they use to say how much of a userbase it has to their shareholders is based on a sample size of 100 users.

Which means they're lying, and not only lying in general to the public but also lying to their shareholders in a manner that could expose them to legal action for fraud.

Reason being, they tell shareholders "Oh we have 200 million users and only 5% are bots" and shareholders make financial investment decisions based on that metric, since users are the main source of revenue for Twatter (seeing ads). If significantly more than 5% of users are bots, that means their platform is significantly less valuable than they claim since the ads that companies are paying for are being seen by a LOT fewer real people than they're intimating to their shareholders. This is fraud and the SEC can ream them for it.

[–] [deleted] • 2 pts

It means Twitter doesn't want anyone knowing anything so they are complaining over the slightest thing.

If I were Elon, I would demand a sample size of 10,000.

[–] [deleted] • 2 pts

"We've investigated ourselves and found only a few bots." The analysis has to be done by an independent entity or it's useless.

[–] • 0 pt

There's no real reason not to just test the entire platform's users honestly. It might take a few days at most.

[–] • 1 pt

This is going to be fun. The more he cleans that shit show up, the more they seethe.