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Elon Musk's X follower count bloated by millions of new, inactive accounts

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Elon Musk's X follower count bloated by millions of new, inactive accounts

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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 years ago

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

Elon Musk’s X follower count bloated by millions of new, inactive accounts::undefined

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Personally I’ve seen more bot activity after his takeover than before, which is strange considering his talk about bots.

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