Anyone who’s spent time on Twitter in the past few months especially has probably run into or at least heard of the “P U S S Y I N B I O”-type replies that posts regularly seem to attract.
Why are they so prevalent? Are they actually so successful that it’s worthwhile to do this? I do not understand who benefits from these, because there cannot be so many people clicking on these links that they’re effective… Can there?
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ELI5? Elon. That’s literally why.
Elon bought Twitter and then ruined the platform. There were porn bots but they were quite rare, and now bots have free-reign over the platform. On top of that he made it so instead of a proper verification system, you can pay him money to be boosted in reply sections. Makes it easy for a bot farmer to just pay a few bucks, and then get their phishing link towards the top of every post.
True user numbers have been dropping steadily, when Elon mentions ‘X numbers are up!” He’s basically just counting the thousands of bots that join every day
Want a fun thing to do? Go to Elon Musks profile, and actually check the profiles in his ‘Followers’ list. A majority is bots lol.
They’re buying twitter blue, so why ban the bots? Any way he can make money off the dying platform that lost over 3/4 of it’s value, he will do.
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