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

  • stopthatgirl7@kbin.socialOP
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    1 year ago

    And dumb shit Elon does with it has repercussions. Just look at Reddit deciding to charge ridiculous amounts for API use as a way to kill 3rd party apps not long after Twitter did it.

    Although honestly, I just shared this because I cracked the entire fuck up at most of Elon’s followers being bots and inactive users and wanted other folks to point and laugh with me.

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      1 year ago

      They did it to stop chat gpt from scraping them. They absolutely used it to kill 3rs party apps to drive more users to their own app. But let’s be serious here. They were protecting their repository of community collected and curated information. Like. I absolutely think Spez was all “win win” when they came up with this.

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      1 year ago

      Oh yes, I’m always down to laugh at Elon. Kinda like watching streamers waste thousands of dollars on gacha games, I enjoy watching Elon burn through $44b worth of Twitter.