• TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Well that sounds terrible. At least with the blue logo you can just hide or block their posts to get to the organic engagement.

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        1 year ago

        yeah, seems like now it will be very difficult to weed them out… just another reason to go away from twitter

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          Knowing how well Twitter is being maintained, there’s likely going to be something left in the code to give Blue people away

    • GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      well that explains why whenever i look at a tweet i have to scroll past all the top comments which are inevitably the stupidest ones

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      Also it let’s Elon pretend that more people are subbed than really are. We know he likes to inflate the perception of whose willing to pay for it after he gave out a bunch of free checks to celebrities who refused to sign up

    • jtk@lemmy.sdf.org
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      Oh I see, the blue checks have become a direct competition to bot farms. I think I’d rather give the money to a bunch of soulless machines than a soulless human.