On Twitter, which I barely ever use, I just check and I have three followers.
One is my wife, and I’m pretty sure she isn’t fake.
Another is some random dude who I’m pretty sure is real, he’s supposedly some unknown musician trying to advertise. So likely it’s spam from someone who is real.
The last is clearly fake. A female photo for the profile and only one post ever, showing barely-covered boobs (but no face in the photo, probably because it wouldn’t match the profile photo). Also they are following 10 times as many people as are following them.
I’m sure if I showed actual signs of life on the platform then I’d have more followers than that, but as I said, I rarely use it.
Regarding Elmo whining that he can’t figure out how to install Windows without creating a Microsoft account, I just came across a comment on a YouTube community post making fun of him for it that hadn’t occurred to me, though its blindingly obvious.
The ultimate irony is that Elon made it much harder to use Twitter without an account lmao
I don’t have or want a Twitter account and have just gotten used to the fact that I can’t look at more than a single linked Twit without being told I need to create an account to look at pretty much anything else. You used to be able to look at everything on Twitter without an account before Elmo took over.
My number of Xitter followers had bumped around in the low 30s for years. This year it’s going up and up and up. I very much doubt any of them are following me because I’m particularly interesting.
Not necessarily. He doesn’t say it was officially prescribed by an actual physician. He could have diagnosed himself and chosen his treatment accordingly.
Same here. I get one or two new “followers” almost every day to my obscure account. Occasionally one is a legit person, but almost all of them are babe-bots.
Maybe Musk has a point about how it is sometimes wrong to put profits ahead of philosophy. This could even explain many of his decisions regarding X!. (Free link NYT article below regarding Musk suing Altman and Open AI, where he served on the board until 2018).
As a habitual ad blocker on Xitter, I’m now getting pitched for a premium subscription that will give me an ad-free service.
I think lots of users block ads out of pure spite. They have seemed to stop selling ads using multiple users - forcing you to block the same ad repeatedly - but I ain’t stoppin’ till I get banned permanently.
No, because PCPs can and do prescribe all kinds of mood-altering drugs including anti-depressants. In fact, ironically, some therapists, like clinical psychologists, don’t have prescribing rights.
I do not get a lot, but when one contacts me, they learn very quickly the depths of depravity to which I can sink. When you can disgust a spammer until they stop spamming, that is a win.
Recreating tubgirl, goatse, et al requests feature (obviously NSFW, don’t google unless you know what I am talking about)
I don’t get much spam. I think many Nigerians have emotional damage due to my replies.
Or maybe the bots are a way to boost the supposed numbers of Xitter users, to try to contradict public perceptions of the site being in danger of users departing?
