X has approximately ~237 million daily active users.
How many bots are in X?
5th Column AI suggested that around 64% of the accounts analyzed on X could potentially be bots.
Posts on X have claimed that bot accounts might range from 12% to as high as 80% of the user base.
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Source:
1. Grok2
2. https://internet2-0.com/bots-on-x-com/
https://iris.to/note1n3dkqcl88spdpxfh73m9jnmpxjyxtjjslg5qv8feexgjcqedqcuseca9km
My inclination, although anecdotal, has absolutely been a high percentage of the traffic is bots. Have to sell the illusion of consensus.
Assuming 60% of 𝕏 users were bots, the network would show low adoption compared to Facebook or Instagram.
It is already well below the number of users of these.
Elon is turning 𝕏 into the Everything App, and to do that, he must attract a large number of users and make investments.
Musk bought Twitter by borrowing, of the US$44 billion, US$13 billion came from debt.
He boasts that X will kill mass media, so he needs to show big numbers.
Don't forget about Elon's ego, beyond business.
It's definitely a Trojan horse. But I don't think the bottling is exclusive to X either. It may be worse there, but it is in the interests of the controllers to have the same bot army everywhere to sway and herd opinions towards their ideological goals.
Turning X into WeChat is an ongoing process. Every drama they manufacture is marketing for them to get truth seekers onto their platform so grok can build a profile around these users and make them easier to manage in the future..
