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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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It's real. Or at least Elon says it is. He's been talking about this for days and retweeted the thread.

It wouldn't be a lie if @elonjet posted something else more revealing other that it was bot'ed to do.

No man, I think that's just somebody trolling you. The account in your link clearly states it is Elon. Must be one of those dodge scams. Not sure.

And Elon said that's a lie and 90% of them are bots, so...

That's Elons alt account.

I've been seeing similar scams in Elon's replies, they just copy his profile picture and name and reply with a different account. You might have seen that one

Is this Elon's secret account? :p

Surely Elon wouldn't do that... just, go on the internet and tell lies...

Yeah the data seems sketchy but then Elon-haters anxious to see X fail will gobble it up as if it were gospel just to satiate their confirmation bias.

The truth is probably somewhere in between... there are probably actually a lot of bots on X but not nearly as bad as this report makes it seem.


If you accept numbers from Elon you might believe this. Otherwise, no.

There is a conspiracy theory that Elon himself wrote that tweet, which IMO tracks.

I have a (dumb) friend who fell for this. It was a good scam - the eth scambot used the same profile photo and had a very similar @ username to elon's (minus the "Verified" icon of course), and it looked like "real" people were replying with affirmations.

I'm going to flag this. You can read Elon tweets and disprove this theory in seconds.

I assume you are joking. In case you aren't, start with the subject of this very thread ($100M claimed Vs $10M reality). Then work backwards through every claim he ever made about anything. Here's a collection of his top hits https://www.elonmusk.today/

Yes. I flagged this because it's just Elon claiming something that's at best speculation.

This user's comment history is mostly Elon shilling. I presume the other comments are supposed to make us think it's not astroturf.

It's definitely that old scam that used to be floating around on Twitter. Read this familiar blurb for Elon on this part of the video. https://youtu.be/3fMGjJVijdY?t=4537

That’s a different scam that has been going on for years. They phish/crack random, usually inactive, verified accounts. And then they chance the display name / profile picture to Elon’s. Then they reply to his tweets with this message

Found Elon’s lurker account.
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