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Hasta la vista, Substack!
Ed, I suspect more people have taken your advice to leave 𝕏 than you realize
These days, my 𝕏 posts get maybe 100 “impressions,” 3 likes and an occasional reply from 2 or 3 Twitter friends or by a blue-checked antivaxxer or MAGA fan
The “free speech but no free reach” formula seems maintained so as to induce me to get blue-checked, while padding the engagement/graph density with bots that like/follow my posts
Earlier today: a like and a follow from a bot that follows 4.9K accounts and is followed by 68. Never once posted or replied; seems programmed to pick posts promiscuously/stochastically in multiple languages, sports, geographies, subjects, from non-blue-checks
If it’s purely random(?), about 10% of us non-chex post porn and “subscribe to my hot video” unpaid ads
It’s morphed into a quasi-social platform for Musk’s propaganda. Sounds like only a matter of time before advertisers realize there’s no there there, that ads merely pay for him being able to push his hate a few more months