"Just 10 "superspreader" users on #Twitter were responsible for more than a third of the misinformation posted over an eight-month period, according to a new report.
In total, 34% of the "low credibility" content posted to the site between January & October of 2020 was created by the 10 users identified by researchers based in the US & UK. More than 70 per cent of posts came from just 1,000 accounts.
I am a tiny bit sad. If only because now I will remember a number -- 23149880 -- that is truly and completely obsolete. I really need to conserve brain space for more important things.
Also, if ICQ can last, what, 15 years? after it became irrelevant, what does that say about how long we're going to have to suffer with Twitter/X if people ever actually leave en-masse?
"Elon claims that X is now up to 600 million monthly active users, and around 300 million daily actives."
"X also reported reaching 500 million monthly users in March 2023, so based on these stats, X seemingly added 50 million more users in a year, but has now added another 50 million in just eight weeks."
😂😂😂
Highly doubt X gained 50 million users in only 8 weeks.
Ruinieren die sozialen Medien die Demokratie? HistorikerInnen geben in Bielefeld Entwarnung. Der Soziologe Steffen Mau sieht das anders.http://www.taz.de/!6011186/
@tazgetroete Ich stelle mal die These auf, dass es nicht die sozialen Medien per se sind, sondern der rechtliche Umgang mit ihnen in den einzelnen souveränen Staaten!
Es geht nicht an, dass weltweit agierende Netze derart extrem Meinungsmanipulation begehen, Hass und Hetze verbreiten können, gleichzeitig Milliarden verdienen und keinerlei Konsequenzen zu fürchten haben.
"TWITTER IS OFFICIALLY dead. Last week, twitter.com became x.com, marking the final step in a rebranding effort that the company’s owner, Elon Musk, announced last year. The change marks a shift for the now birdless app under Musk’s reign, which has welcomed Nazis and white supremacists back to the platform, dissolved its Trust and Safety council, and has become a cesspool of disinformation and conspiracy."
So when #MuskyTwitter was purchased I joined Mastodon, Post, Spill, Spoutible and BlueSky. Post is going belly up on 5/31. I left Spill because of members policing the way I engage on social media. If I wanted to be critiqued and criticized in my downtime I could go read my course evaluations. Now spam complaints on Mastodon?? I may need to just delete everything except the dark place. #BlackSTEM#BlackFedi#BlackTwitter#BlackMastodon#BlackFediverse#NoireSTEMinist
@drcaberry Please stay. There are gonna be jerks no matter where we go and this place at-least no one, overly funded, asshat, can destroy your connections. There are so many good people I still miss from #Twitter. #Musk#Mastodon I could lend you my #BlueCheckRat I’m training him to bite sm police types. #Ratified
'Just 10 "superspreader" users on Twitter were responsible for more than a third of the misinformation posted over an eight-month period, according to a new report.
In total, 34 per cent of the "low credibility" content posted to the site between January and October of 2020 was created by the 10 users identified by researchers based in the US and UK.'
#Twitter
C'est drôle : Elon Musk considère que "cis" ou "cisgenre" sont des insultes et restreint les comptes qui utilisent ces termes. En même temps, qu'attendre d'autre d'un média d'extrême-droite ?
De toute façon Twitter n'est plus qu'une ville fantôme qui contient plus de bots que de véritables utilisateurs. https://www.advocate.com/news/cisgender-restriction-x-twitter
People post #fanart made with #ai to #twitter and get thousands of followers then thousands of supporters on #Patreon. When I post my #AiArt all I get is either hate or crickets. I dropped using Ai Art Generator experiments because of all the hate I'm getting and my Ai generated artworks were all based on my own 3D renderings and using my own database.
Something this morning made me think on this and smile to remember it. In the very early days of #Twitter the naive girl that I was used to engage dear @darrell73 in philosophical debates. I never scored one point or won one battle but I gave it my best shot. It's a wonder he even still acknowledges me poor man. 😁🤣