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I choose to believe the richest, and therefore the smartest, man in the world over some lib reporter's fake news at Bloomberg. If Elon says it's on hold, it's on hold. Beware, Twitter! The New Sherriff in Town will grind your bots to dust and make you eat them!

NetOpWibby | karma 1368 | avg karma 1.29 · | 2024-02-16 23:00:04

LOL LMAO!

Remember when Musk said there weren't any bots on his platform? He had the bot problem under control?

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cyanydeez | karma 1718 | avg karma 0.75 · | 2022-05-18 19:49:00

Poor Elon. He looks stupid either way.

If I cared, I'd go find the Elon tweet where he suggested that he already knew twitter was filled with bots, spammers and himself, shameless self promoters

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kevviiinn | karma 605 | avg karma 0.77 · | 2023-03-02 10:01:44

With how many bots there are voting on the Elon polls I wouldn't be surprised at all

dylan604 | karma 28008 | avg karma 1.81 · | 2022-12-06 08:59:28

In two weeks Elon will declare that there are 0 real users and that everyone is a ChatGPT bot. Oh wait, he's already said that

cco | karma 1351 | avg karma 2.49 · | 2022-04-26 09:56:04

Much simpler, does Elon's jet's Twitter bot stay around? That's the litmus test haha.

esalman | karma 1562 | avg karma 2.17 · | 2023-11-02 12:32:55

Per Elon Musk, those are mostly bots.

natch | karma 6856 | avg karma 1.47 · | 2023-10-28 19:03:11

I’m afraid I don’t believe you.

Here is a link to someone doing what you say should immediately attract ten bots:

https://x.com/xtlufa/status/1710110358088917405?s=46&t=mWO9f...

As you can see, zero bots have replied.

Unfortunately there are a lot of Elon haters who just make stuff up. I’m not saying you are one of those. But I will say that because of this phenomenon, when you make claims of this sort, if you don’t provide evidence you are likely to be asked for evidence.

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ajmurmann | karma 10380 | avg karma 2.92 · | 2022-12-19 00:58:54

Elon even said himself while running the Trump resurrection poll that there were so many bots voting. It's somewhat bizarre.

dzader | karma 28 | avg karma 0.25 · | 2022-12-13 08:06:50

My favorite part is that Elon's follower count has only been increasing since he bought the platform despite his many public admissions that most of those accounts are bots. notice how when he bans bots from posting he doesn't delete the accounts so his fragile ego won't be hurt by losing followers

DeathArrow | karma 9561 | avg karma 2.13 · | 2022-06-10 00:00:49

It will take a long time for Musk to read all those tweets and count the bots. I hope he doesn't make mistakes at counting so he doesn't need to start all over. :)

bediger4000 | karma 4590 | avg karma 0.96 · | 2023-08-27 09:57:00

Wait wasn't Elon going to solve the bot problem?

dorkwood | karma 4004 | avg karma 3.52 · | 2023-12-21 10:41:23

I know you're joking but I think this could legitimately be a ploy by Elon to keep Twitter in the news, which can be a big source of traffic. Pretty smart, really.

powerbroker | karma 245 | avg karma 0.96 · | 2022-03-14 17:08:18

But will Putin read the Bloomberg (or other news outlets)? Elon is taking a big gamble.

dormento | karma 284 | avg karma 1.72 · | 2023-07-19 09:58:31

No it cannot be. The whole Elon shtick was "fighting botspam". Of course they also said "make it lucrative", which is kinda at odds with the botspam-fighting claim... And now the blue ticks are getting paid to spout polarizing nonsense.