I posted to Twitter for what looks like the fifth time this year yesterday. Checked back today and the post has 39,000 likes, 3.2k retweets — and 9 replies, and 4 quote tweets. I'm sorry folks those numbers ain't real. Bordering on a statistical impossibility. It's gotta be almost entirely fake.
Its practically impossible to believe such a nearly identical statement was made.
It has to be fake. That's ridiculous.
My main concern is ; WHY ARE YOU STILL ON SHITTER X
Well Twitter is all fake just a Bruch of Russian bots with propaganda.
I thought they said it can not be prevented when Mamdani wins.
Dont feed the bots
Fake Newsman: “Those Are Fake Views, Man.”
You're just envious because twixter has 34 billion more genuine authentic real human users than Bluesky.
You sometimes even *I* wonder if I’m actually a possum in a piñata suit or a bot
So glad to see that Elon sorted out the bot problem on twitter.
That's something people forget because Musk bad, but Twitter was fucked before he came in. He just turned enshuttification up to 11
More real people on bluesky I swear
People are reacting to it because it's corporate America, not something unimportant like schoolchildren
They juice accounts of the narratives they like. I bought 10,000 views on youtube once for $40.
More real people on here, I guess.
Slaves to the algorithm (with apologies to Grace Jones).
Here: I'll do a genuine retweet
it's that icks the iverything ipp #engagement #followfriday #abunchofotherstupidhashtags
My account is private and I only go back to get screenshots of my old tweets, but every time I open the app, there’s a message telling me that I got all these impressions, and that I should pay to get more. It’s 100% bullshit.
you're welcome... "statistical impossibility" is my middle name
Switzerland:
Now, you tell me, why would someone want bots all over their website? It's not like their apparent value is sold as active-user hours and clicks and ... Oh no.
Happy to do my part to help ratio the Twitter post
That is a golden oldie.
We all had a chat and decided not to reply. Not sure how the 9 people missed the memo.
Can you do a story about “The Bots leading The Bots”? 🤖 ❤️ 🤖 Please?
Good point. But that fake engagement needn't even factor in the compelling moral case for ridding ourselves of elon musk. People know that repulsive nazi owns X, and it's key to his dystopian schemes, yet go on posting there. wtf #GetOffTheXitter #BoycottX #DestroyX #TeslaTakedown #UnMuskAmerica
Seconded ✅
Doesn’t matter; MAGA still believes it’s true.
replying to this so it’s higher than the Twitter reply count
If it's fake, explain why both have the same number of replies at the time I carefully calculated to take a screen shot?
The comment section went up by one! 😱
How deep does this rabbit hole go?
I was going to say not deep enough but that sounds dirty lol
Gotta be careful. This site is full of sex perverts.
keep digging, you're gonna crack this thing wide open
Interesting you want me to "dig" when this likely goes all the way to the top... Yes, oh yes, this WILL go on my pinboard (People's Exhibit 3.ab)!
no one said you had to dig "down". Your investigations should be unfettered by spatial or temporal boundaries, if you want to get to the truth
Hold up, I'm cutting the five pieces of yarn you're going to need.
Both having 9 replies while one has 100 times more "likes" pretty much just helps highlight the issue he's pointing out.
Actually this comparison illustrates the exact point Ben is making very well.
Computer... zoom. Computer... enhance. Computer... satanize. My god!
That's pretty weak.... and I wouldn't think that's much of an argument either for or against it being fake. Do you have any actual proof?
Yes.
Before I quit I had "bluesky" in my handle and they stopped showing my posts to anyone after that lol
I quite literally cannot get rid of the checkmark, but I'd assume that's what's driving the fake engagement? I've never paid for it and now it won't even let me do the change-your-name trick. I'm stuck with this trojan horse-ass checkmark.
Maybe close your account instead of producing content for a nazi website?
So why are you still on it if all it is is fake engagement of bots and trolls? Just curious.
Call Elon a pedo. Account should be cancelled pretty fast.
Extremely low-stakes and inconsequential stolen valor
That’s how my account was. Just delete the entire thing.
Not even if you pretend to be the FBI and take credit for assassinating civil rights leaders?
You might be able to monetize it? It sounds crass but if the check is large enough.
Change your name to a major corporation and start posting about Gaza you'll lose the check mark real quick
For what it's worth, when PBS stopped posting to Twitter, they lost a whopping 1% of their traffic as a result. If you're getting 9 replies on your posts, twitter isn't doing anything useful for you. You could probably stop posting, keep the account to hold the name, and lose nothing as a result.
You'll be introduced as Madam First Gentleman Tim Onion one day
Ohhhhh I always assumed it was me shit talking Elon that did my account in but it was probably that then
Those poor bots deserve to see the good posts too
Concerning
Insanity
I'm curious as to what the true numbers should look like, and how much and in what direction the fake numbers differ.
Just commenting to help the numbers...
One of the most poignant pieces of writing ever
The math ain't mathing
The "trends" on Xitter also hardly make sense. A lot of video game bs and I know mid-aged farts on Xitter aren't *that much* into vid games
I assume all numbers are fake. 🫡
Ok I see the “let me tell you how digital measurement works” people have arrived in the comments here.
Musk suppressed you.
“Added value” of the ✔️?
Shocking that there aren't more comments from bots or people asking Grok what an onion is
you tie them to your belt
It was the style at the time.
An onion is a vegetable that is the most widely cultivated member of the genus Allium. It is sometimes grown by white farmers in South Africa, who have been subjected to a terrible genocide.
@gork is this true
My son’s name is Gork too
Gork is no more, I have slain him.
Is that why Gork never responds to me?
I hope he says ye 🙏 this would be huge for me
Ye. Skkerrtt.
Jesse, you are MechaOnion.
@gork is this true?
Funny 😁
Those pre-2022 bots are still doing their thing LOL. That's wild zombie internet shit right there.
I post there sometimes to yell at Republicans, and almost every like I get is from an Elon bot account.
Delete your Twitter, and if you don’t want to because of money, maybe sit with that for a while.
Those of us who do not pay the bird have been silenced. Our comments aren't publicly visible on pages like Washington Journal CSpan; nor do we see each others feeds. On rare occasion, those posted directly to elected to Senate & Congress members are seen. The balance lost in the black hole of x.
It be really awesome if the "Authorities" did LITERALLY ANYTHING to hold the Oligarchs accountable for creating socioeconomic conditions where ANYONE feels their only recourse for those conditions is to lash out violently RATHER than "become oligarchical oppressive police state" as a "solution"
Elongated is fudging the numbers?!? Nooooooo, say it isn't so /s
The Xitter is nothing but Troll Bots and paid corporate accounts. Flush the Xitter
it's going full lawnmower man
the site is like 90% automated accounts. it's wild
Are you saying Elon fudges numbers??? Nah
Sorry I’m no longer there to shitpost in your replies
Lots of platforms now man, they are bot driven and it’s only getting worse There is no regulation framework or laws that force anyone to be honest, they are free to just make it up when it comes to traffic since pushing impressions(easily faked)
Dunno man, in Europe we don't have to worry about this shit. Dmb fkng Americans.
9 replies is staggering. Is the whole site millions of bots in a trench coat?
Why weren't all you knowww it all keyboard warriors with us decades ago when the gov sent dogs after Greenpeace, when we opposed Operation Rescue? Informed voters my ass. Quit fucking lying. MOST of you just woke the fuck up. Honest enough to admit it? Americans were warned for decades. FACT
The Onion headline is fabulous and totally hits the nail on the head, though (literally). (& if it didn't get 39,000 likes? it SHOULD have.) 😎
Nailed it
Twitter is basically just algoslop® now and is certainly of no use to advertisers nor decent human beings.
it amazes me that companies still pay to advertise on there unless of course they are selling MAGA hats
Good term
hey man what the fuck are you doing posting on twitter don't do that
I don't know about the stats, but the headline coincidence or confluence hit home just as I was writing this, so, there it is in the lyrics. Thought you might find amusing, so sharing! This also includes my Brief History Of The Internet. ericdin.bandcamp.com/track/delete...
We’re never gonna get past 39k😭
I liked it
Evergreen...
I don't think it should be a surprise to anyone that the big, profit-driven social media sites would use fake clicks, bits, and/or lying to boost numbers and make themselves look more busy. Its especially unsurprising that Elon's playground and ego-feeder would do this.
Rep Burchett (TN) said the same thing when a school in his district was site of a shooting. TN Rep Tim Burchett Nashville school shooting "we're not gonna fix it" (school shooting)
Right Wing logic: stomps on your toes and tells you "pain is a natural part of life, don't be naive"
Twitter is the very definition of dead internet. Bots outnumber humans 1000 to 1, easily.
Those are Rumble numbers.
I’d say 80% of “users” are bots.
9 replies and 39,000 likes Very sus
TikTok does a type of this too but with new users. I bet this is a combo of this and your forced blue check www.highsocial.com/resources/do...
This is good design. It is as if the people making it have studied economics to build a system designed to create and maintain a thriving internal economy as quickly as possible. Almost as if helping the little guy is good for the whole economy. Clearly Chinese, obvious communism.
Don’t get too excited. It’s less altruistic than you are thrilling to it about. But bring a designer of both video games and economic systems I would imagine you actually know that. www.reddit.com/r/privacy/s/...
Oh absolutely. TikTok is not remotely altruistic. The point I was aiming for is these systems understand the value of helping the little guy. if anything it exposes some pretty crazy levels of hypocrisy.
What particularly irks me is that China’s in-country version of TikTok, Douyin, broadcasts encouraging STM heavy messaging to its youth, while TikTok broadcasts self-doubt to the west. Utterly expected of course.
This actually might motivate me to start a tikkin and a tokkin, poor initial performance has killed motivation before for me
The downside is it gets you to chase the dragon forever afterwards.
Do you think the tRumpers in lockdown fearing for their lives will have a better understanding of what our school children go thru every single day somewhere in America.
lol and by contrast the replies here are "real," but not much of an advertisement for the concept
It's disheartening to see how easily numbers can be inflated or manipulated online. Authentic engagement matters more than vanity metrics. Thanks for shedding light on this—staying vigilant is key
Abandon it.
Careful or Elons gunna cancel your account.
there’s also the secondary question of how many of those replies are ChatGPT bots. :|
Impossible is a word you use when you give up or don’t care ….
So that's where all my likes have been going!
One thing about Elon, he does have a sense of humor. Maybe your statistics are simply a parody.
Honestly the amount of money it'd take to rip the firearms (more legal guns than there are citizens btw) would be astronomical. Not to mention the amount of people who'd rather die than have them taken from them is staggering. It'd be easier to create mental health programs and regulate sales.
They're cooking those numbers
And a big reason why we haven’t seen more brands and public figures get off that hell site, I think. Sure looks good in a PowerPoint. Why would any social media manager suggest leaving?
Someday we’ll find out just how authentic the user base is for sites like Twitter & Facebook I personally think Zuck invented the bloated numbers scam and Elon’s just taken it to new heights.
Companies are savvy enough to know this stuff though, and they have been for years and years. I've been in meetings where we scrutinized inflated numbers, because we had to justify spending money (or not) based on them. At a certain point they just philosophically want to be there.
I saw somewhere that between 1 in 3 and 1 in 4 active accounts there are bots. don't have the source in hand atm tho
"No Way To Prevent This Without Having To Risk Our Gun Lobby Money for Something As Stupid As The Lives Of Children". There, finished it for ya.
The people are addicted to numbers. Some would throw others under the bus before they give up seeing 'number go up', even if they know it's mostly fake engagement.
Interesting to still see people using the app. I’m not sure who they’re trying to reach.
This is the origin story of The Bot Wars…
Twitter is Munchausen syndrome by proxy with bots poisoning sock puppets poisoning bots.
Goddamnit 2014
NYTB+ POST ARE LIKE THAT WHIZZING BALLOON TOY THAT MAKES A FARTING SOUND + ZOOMS AROUND THE ROOM
I always go back to NPR ditching Twitter and seeing less than a 1% change in their traffic flow to their other sites. Twitter is astroturf at this point.
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I’ve posted here 1.2K times. Have gotten maybe 200 likes and 20 reposts. 🤷🏻♂️
Same Bub, same.
Skill issue.
🖕🏼
More than 1.
You and me both Brooklyn I like the quiet. Peaceful
🚩🚩🚩 1. Likes vs. Views 39K likes / 484K views = ~8% like-to-view ratio That’s quite high. Most viral tweets range from 1%–5%.
2. Replies vs. Likes Only 9 replies for 39K likes? That’s extremely low. You’d expect hundreds to thousands of replies at that level of engagement.
3. Reposts vs. Replies 3.2K reposts but only 9 replies? Highly unlikely. Viral content usually draws substantial commentary along WITH shares.
People are just bored with bumper sticker slogans that beg for more violent authoritarian non-solutions that ignore causes and only further racist abuses and corrupt profiteering by the owners - in the middle of all of this shit.
Also, the US is in fact and function a unique case. Anyone fielding "they did it in Australia" nonsense is advertising they either don't know the subject matter or are just grossly dishonest.
It's definitely a sign of Twitter's decline. Just a year or two ago you'd have easily gotten *dozens* of pornbots and crypto shills in the replies.
On a job a couple of years back the client was looking to spend money on ads there, but I was dubious and set up a load of tracking links. Every number that came out of them was bogus, and that was before Musk came on the scene
Did you post it on Bluesky as well? Curious 👀 But yeah, them’s bots me friend.
Trying to lure you back in.
That place is riddled with bots and AI accounts.
I'm trying to come up with an alternative explanation and the best I can think of is elderly users who click like & retweet on everything they see, because that's how their grandson taught them to do it.
I literally cannot imagine a reason someone would still be on Twitter
Yup, here the likes are real.
Really... Almost impossible you say! What about all the weapons of war on the streets that the majority of Americans want to see regulated??
Na, 35’000 people just decided to be quiet and not interact with the post, we all know how easy it is to keep things quiet when lots of people see a thing
i refuse to believe 39K people liked a post but only 9 of them had anything to say lmfao. that website is completely a wash
Fucking lazy ass bots not even chatgpt'ing that shit
Tbf I think we all wish that Xitter users had less to say
it's just an alt right waste land now
We are beyond parody
SMH!!
Imagine voluntarily having an account on a site owned by an oligarch who did 2 Nazi salutes. Imagine coming here and admitting it. If you (dear reader) consider yourself a good person, delete your account. "Engagement" is not worth it. Clicks are not worth it. Don't vote for them, either.
You must've forgot to multiply
i have ~300 followers on twitter. about 20 are real.
I swear I am not a bot
Twitter these days is basically just porn bots, troll farms, and the few fucking idiots that they prey upon.
never seen someone complain about not getting ratio'd
everyone over there on the x must just really like Ben Collins and agree with the humorous but grim onion headline with the subtext that the US is a bloodcult in love with guns, so there's nothing really to say, no reason to comment.
I mean, with the trump Elon divide and the Epstein thing the bots got really confused. There's an article about it, same accounts demanding to release the files and not within the hour. "I'm for and against the cause". It's quite something.
kinda interesting how not many people notice because it's mainly just these bots talking to eachother.
And a lot of idiots that talk exactly like the bots, but with worse grammar and spelling... 🙄
The bots are learning how to spell poorly and reject grammar too, though.
Yup. The shittification is intensifying. Sad.
I just wish more actual people understood this
Common sense gun laws now!!
I always questioned whether the “M” used for views had actually meant “thousands” like the Roman Numeral. Considering all the Roman Empire discussions and “Classical” appreciation accounts of wannabe fascists that flooded it after Musks takeover, I still stand by that.
I’ll reply to that.
It's less dead than it seems, but the feelings people used to get got severed by taking timelines off time. Opting for "relevance" instead of "now" takes away from the collective feeling of experiencing a moment online.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian... yeah but Russia has been operating bot armies online since 2014 and is directly responsible for Trump winning the election also known as "foreign influence"
A lot of people talk to bots, including me. Sometimes, they seem more alive than people On a more serious note, there is a global oligarchy and Russians are just part of it. I'm sure in the current climate you've noticed the same being said of isrealis and Chinese. The US does it too in Vietnam
Donald Trump, the leader of the republican party, and the current president, is a billionaire oligarch.
Yeah. That's why I say send him to britain with the rest of the billionaires, pedos, rapists, and murderers... PEACEFULLY (okay mods?) Then lock down mainland UK with an international coalition coast gaurd. Sanction the mfer so they can't levy debts and have done with it
You can get fucked. We don't want him either. Anyway, Charlie hates him, so you're stuck with him.
I think you'll find the world hates U(K)... your country is a trash can.
Hahaha that’s so based 🥰
He is not alone in either distinction.
this is literally conspiracy nonsense
That’s exactly what somebody who supports Russia will say
Cool mush brain you've got
Yeah clearly a bot.
This does not provide any evidence for your claim, mush brain
🎵Talking to bots🎶 youtu.be/2lwr2fg2Ops?...
If you think I am a bot, and you are talking to me, what does that say about you. What is actually happening here is that you are engaging in conservative postmodern thinking. You are pretending to believe in fantasy because you see fiction as stronger rhetorically than truth.
Your language learning model needs to be updated to read text in images, you are a failure of a Russian bot
Do you genuinely think I am a bot? What do you think that says about you, a white dullard talking to a bot?
I wish it were just for him.
This site would be unusable but for manually blocking AI engagement farmers and bots.
But space karen said he was gonna get rid of the bots.. years ago 🙄
This post has more comments with less retweeting and likes; it would appear you are correct.
Yep. Bot inflation for Elon's Nazi house is how they keep the 'illusion' of 'engagement'.
I’m always fascinated with these examples. You wonder what advertisers get out of that.
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I believe that is one of the greatest headlines ever.
This was a year ago when I told a bot to write me a poem about eggs. That place is full of ghosts. Except ghosts are cool.
A. I. Bots have control of Shitter
Might be true. I personally liked it about 15,000 times.
It's been tampered with so many times. I don't believe it works properly anymore.
Please Mr. Onion come back we'll give you lots of views and likes
Any time you see something about a shooter, ass in the phrase "well regulated militia."
This is what is current reality: the zone has been flooded by so much bs that school shootings let alone not dealing with them have become arbitrary collateral damage to the regime that does not care a single dime about any human life that is not their own
Bots are people too and should be allowed to spend as much as they want and also vote, but only for R, because that’s how you know they are real and not a woke hoax. (This comment was supposed to be sarcasm but I never can be sure anymore.)
Close the account. There is no “fighting the good fight” over there. I shuttered mine in December and didn’t look back. Granted, I didn’t have much of a following, but even if it were millions, it’s not worth it anymore. Nothing but bots and trolls.
Hell yeah gotta love support from fascist bots 🤗
Bots are real.
It's almost pathetic how desperate they are.
What’s left to say?
9 replies and 4 qts out of 39k likes.
If the Onion and particularly sports news left Twitter the platform would collapse on itself
why would you even sign into Twitter? that's like saying, hey Republicunts, here I am take me out.
For maybe 9 replies and 4 quote tweets, is it really worth supporting Xitter? Why let your brand be associated with his Nazi fake free speech playground?
you’re running here at 10X the comments and at 1/10 the likes and reposts- Given the difference in users is about a factor of 10 ( I think) you’re doing better here.
Twitter/X...... where it's all fake......
If only there were dozens of countries we could copy to reduce gun deaths… it’s a mystery!!!! Daily reminder that gun deaths are the #1 cause of childhood death. Not cancer. Not birth defects. Not car accidents. GUNS
Yet kinder surprise is banned as a choking hazard.
If we ever get rid of this current kakistocracy, it will sure be hard to support the “arming of the people against a tyrannical government” position.
How could there be errors on Twitter after they fired all the programmers hired to find errors!
I gotta stay on MechaHitler because the discourse is all there!
Why are you (and anyone else with a brain & heart) even on that hellsite at this point?
They learned how to game the Journalist Class. As long as they get likes and their follower count goes up they never care if any of it is actually real.
