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I heard from a different source, it was 80% bots, 20% organic. :200:
And that's how they manipulate successes, failures and/or popularity.

https://twitter.com/canindependent/stat ... 0619949057
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Good ideas do not always have the necessary safe-guards in place.
Twitter I am sure is a nest full of crap and bots and security holes. It is not worth $44B.
He claimed Twitter was "a decade behind" security standards, that users' data is not sufficiently protected and that too many staff have access to it.
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Jlabute wrote: Sep 13th, 2022, 1:14 pm Good ideas do not always have the necessary safe-guards in place.
Twitter I am sure is a nest full of crap and bots and security holes. It is not worth $44B.
He claimed Twitter was "a decade behind" security standards, that users' data is not sufficiently protected and that too many staff have access to it.
Also heard in a podcast, Jack had a chat with Elon.
Twitter, like many others, has been weaponized.

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DataCruncher wrote: Sep 13th, 2022, 12:48 pm I heard from a different source, it was 80% bots, 20% organic. :200:
And that's how they manipulate successes, failures and/or popularity.

https://twitter.com/canindependent/stat ... 0619949057
This is from one pead off ex-employee.

Read the reply comments from that link.
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alanjh595 wrote: Sep 13th, 2022, 3:37 pm
DataCruncher wrote: Sep 13th, 2022, 12:48 pm I heard from a different source, it was 80% bots, 20% organic. :200:
And that's how they manipulate successes, failures and/or popularity.

https://twitter.com/canindependent/stat ... 0619949057
This is from one pead off ex-employee.

Read the reply comments from that link.
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NOW you know how twitter works. :smt045
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