I’m fully convinced that the vast majority of Twitter activity post Musk purchase is just bots talking with each other. I’m confident that we’ll look back at the zombie corpse of Twitter as the first real instance of dead internet theory in practice.
The reason why I say this is because there’s no way any genuine users are left on that site. Twitter in the 2010s was already notorious for being the most worst cesspit on the internet, so much so that its user base was already on the decline long before Musk bought the platform. After the purchase, Musk went out of his way to make Twitter as unusable as possible, and this was enough to make most people jump ship because not was Twitter just as, if not more toxic, but not the platform is just shit to use.
If you go to Twitter now and see what’s going on there, you’ll see that it’s virtually all just politicians, corporations, orgs, only fans girls, celebrities, and right wing grifters… most of these were already run by bots long ago, but now most of the “normal” users are bot as well. If you go to any twitter thread, you’ll see a lot of faceless accounts that all happen to parrot the same talking points that happen to mysteriously align with Musk’s personal views on things.
I’m fully convinced that the vast majority of Twitter activity post Musk purchase is just bots talking with each other. I’m confident that we’ll look back at the zombie corpse of Twitter as the first real instance of dead internet theory in practice.
The reason why I say this is because there’s no way any genuine users are left on that site. Twitter in the 2010s was already notorious for being the most worst cesspit on the internet, so much so that its user base was already on the decline long before Musk bought the platform. After the purchase, Musk went out of his way to make Twitter as unusable as possible, and this was enough to make most people jump ship because not was Twitter just as, if not more toxic, but not the platform is just shit to use.
If you go to Twitter now and see what’s going on there, you’ll see that it’s virtually all just politicians, corporations, orgs, only fans girls, celebrities, and right wing grifters… most of these were already run by bots long ago, but now most of the “normal” users are bot as well. If you go to any twitter thread, you’ll see a lot of faceless accounts that all happen to parrot the same talking points that happen to mysteriously align with Musk’s personal views on things.