The majority of traffic from Elon Musk's X may have been fake during the Super Bowl, report suggests (mashable.com)
from L4s@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world on 17 Feb 2024 00:00
https://lemmy.world/post/12050501

The majority of traffic from Elon Musk’s X may have been fake during the Super Bowl, report suggests::undefined

#technology

threaded - newest

op12@lemmy.world on 17 Feb 2024 01:03 next collapse

surprisedpikachu.jpg

Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works on 17 Feb 2024 09:22 collapse

149 upvotes on average and this comment is less than 19? Why do these fake fucks even give a shit about Lemmy?! Go the fuck away, you shitbags.

otp@sh.itjust.works on 17 Feb 2024 19:33 collapse

…what are you talking about? Lol

db2@lemmy.world on 17 Feb 2024 01:18 next collapse

🫢

darkmatternoodlecow@programming.dev on 17 Feb 2024 03:47 next collapse

Consequences of this discovery for Elon Musk and X:

OpenStars@startrek.website on 17 Feb 2024 03:48 next collapse

Which would normally mean that Reddit is not far behind, unless their CEO has the brains to avoid stepping into this same trap. But since it’s Huffman, they’re screwed! 😆

gedaliyah@lemmy.world on 17 Feb 2024 04:29 next collapse

Just during the Super Bowl?

brbposting@sh.itjust.works on 17 Feb 2024 05:52 next collapse

When X’s Super Bowl traffic is compared to other social media platforms during the same time period, the bot issue on Musk’s platform appears even more stark. …

Out of more than 40 million visits from TikTok, only 2.56 percent were determined to be fake. Facebook sent 8.1 million visits and 2.01 percent of the monitored visits were classified as inauthentic. And over on Instagram, only 0.73 percent of the 68,700 visits from the platform were fake.

Tytunovich tells Mashable that it’s not out of the ordinary to see spikes in fake traffic on social media platforms during big events like U.S. elections. However, he has never seen anything close to X’s 75.85 percent.

Twitter, Superbowl February 2023: 2.81%

Untitled4774@sh.itjust.works on 17 Feb 2024 17:17 collapse

“Bots!” Musk yelled, as if conjuring them up.

A war against them he declared, but really, he was just building his own army it seems.

Gingerlegs@lemmy.world on 17 Feb 2024 09:12 collapse

During the Super Bowl is the shocking news! Who the fuck still uses that shit?