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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Imagine if you said you could buy the plataform for lots of billions as a “””joke”””
then said plataform and justice system says “hey, you actually gotta buy it now, not a joke anymore because you are dumb as a door saying that publicly, billion boy”
so ok, now you bought the damn plataform, and you realize you overpaid it by a big margin, the plataform itself wasnt built do generate revenue, the ad works aren’t that great either. It’s more political than lucrative.
But, you lost all that money right? You gotta recover it, so what do you do?
Like everything today, you create a subscription.
You let paid users get priority top tweets and actually make a few bucks by their hard thoughts.
The first payments were actually massive retroactives by all impressions from before
Sweet right?
Actually no, people soon realized that the second payment were waaaaay less money than the first, so they had to get… competitive?
That’s when you start seeing a lot of rage and porn baits, every click on twitter now is 1/7 of a cent of a dollar. People realized they can create new accounts, pay for the damn checkmark and boom, you are in the game. You just need to click their links, profiles and reply any shit to accounts that counts as “engagement”.
But the story doesn’t stop here.
The thing was becoming “lucrative” to just create an account, buy blue, let some IA think of tweets, and keeps track of all hit tweets and trying to get their cents in the replies. So now you see, any top tweet will have tons of “unrelated tweets and videos” on the replies. All replying and liking each others tweets, bots that interacts with bots
And they use any strategy avaliable, sports, cool things, woman, porn. Anything that can bait your neurons to click it and generate revenue.
Also you layed off the whole mod team lmao
“engagement” will kill the internet because bots can generate fake engagement. we are actually doomed by the dead internet theory.
Why you think the net was born?
You know your feed is based off of what you do on your phone?
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The ‘why’ is the same as almost everything else in our society- to make money, and because they can (thanks to elon in this case)
Spam is very cheap to send and getting cheaper, anywhere that doesn’t make extensive (and expensive) efforts to control it.
this is what happens when you fire essential engineers then wonder why all these bots are bypassing security spam things.
I’m on twitter alot and it’s so unusual to not see a single Elon defender in the replies lol
Scams mostly work on people who lack the context and critical thinking to realize they’re scams. They’re basically selecting their targets by making scam posts so obvious the only people who will click on them are extremely gullible. Being horny reduces our brains ability to assess risks too
Sending a million messages online is only tangentially more difficult than sending one. And if only a dozen people send money it’s already worth it ten times over.
While I feel a lot of people in here have issues with Elon from a personal/political perspective, and putting aside that many are just replying anecdotally because they don’t like Elon; I agree the comment section on Twitter is becoming useless for discussion purposes and the bot situation has been getting worse from my experience.
Is it worse than pre-Elon? I don’t know.
Maybe it’s to pad engagement stats or compel people to get blue checks, which supposedly provides a better experience? Who knows. An objective, non-bias study would be interesting.
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