We took a close look at Elon Musk's more than 150 million followers on X aka Twitter. What we found is…concerning.

Elon Musk’s X follower count bloated by millions of new, inactive accounts::undefined

@SoyTDI@lemmy.world
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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.

Shazbot
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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.”

Probably an engineer that was threatened with being fired if he doesn’t figure out how to get Musk millions of new followers.

@gd42@lemmy.world
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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.

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=2OB4oZvfExk

@sugarfree@lemmy.world
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Personally I’ve seen more bot activity after his takeover than before, which is strange considering his talk about bots.

It feels like he’s covering up some type of crime more than anything

@xc2215x@lemmy.world
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21Y

Not surprising to see. A lot of accounts are not active.

Can this sub shut the fuck up about this joker for a day or two? Pathetic.

It’s enjoyable to hear about his continual and repeated fuck ups. All publicity is not good publicity.

@Squander@lemmy.world
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11Y

Hey mods! can you at least make it so the L4SBOT isnt posting Musk articles, this community already has plenty

I’ll just block OP

@Squander@lemmy.world
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11Y

OP is a bot. A pretty good bot, it keeps the sub fresh with new articles. We just need to stop talking about this guy.

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.

@JTode@lemmy.world
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21Y

This is reach Kim levels.

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