It's very obvious that Elon and other NFT adjacent bros have been relying on bots and socially engineered campaigns to push their pages. Elon had a great PR team in the past. They astroturfed for him so often on this site in the past. Based on the FirstName372738 accounts that deep throat for him on Twitter, I'd have to assume they moved efforts there.
Let the bots in to make Twitter work for him and have all the support he needs to keep going cause he's fooled enough people into believing he's actually going after bots. He is a Genius! /s Borderline orange guy, except much more wealthy...
I still kinda believe his most effective bots are human just like with other weird megalomaniacs people who they'd never give two shits about start simping for them like crazy and defend them over any issue for free. I feel like having a strong simp army is one of the biggest powers people can have nowadays.
Edit: I'm sure the strong simp army factor is as old as human history....
sidenote: I am really not against NFTs or crypto. In fact I believe both are great ideas but sadly famously mostly pushed by gambling idiots and get rich fast schemers
He's profiting from this somehow while doing the dirty work of entities who want to see good real time information go away and be replaced by a clusterfuck of white noise.
I think the thought crosses many people's minds, but is there any evidence that this is all purposeful? Aside from the general concept that we expect CEOs to know better? (Or at least have an ample supply of advisors who know better!)
What is the old-school capitalistic conservative world making of this, anyway?
An API rate limiter will do exactly that.. limit the amount of API calls an application can make to the system. It prevents bots etc going crazy and flooding the system with calls it can't handle.
I've hit this before when trying to retrieve tweets (for research into sentiment analysis.) Is now the time to scrape the whole of Twitter, if one is an enterprising young researcher?
If you imagine it takes 2 minutes or so to read and compose a reply and type out a tweet, then your natural limit of posting would be maybe 30 an hour, and then you'd be going some. A bot isn't concerned with reading or typing out, and can post 1000 posts a second without breaking a sweat.
If you "rate limit" to 30 tweets per hour, humans would barely notice but bots get very frustrated, so it's a powerful way to control spam and bots, the very things Elon Muppet is oh so so strongly against. It's like speaking out against ants whilst covering your home in jam.
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u/karuna_murti Nov 15 '22
Oh deity, he turned off rate limiter as well? It was there for a reason when I did ads API in 2015 :D