@psychothumbs@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 11 months ago"They need us. We don't need them:" The fall of Twitter is making the trolls and grifters desperatewww.salon.comexternal-linkmessage-square107fedilinkarrow-up1723arrow-down166cross-posted to: politics@lemmy.worldtwitter@lemmy.world
arrow-up1657arrow-down1external-link"They need us. We don't need them:" The fall of Twitter is making the trolls and grifters desperatewww.salon.com@psychothumbs@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 11 months agomessage-square107fedilinkcross-posted to: politics@lemmy.worldtwitter@lemmy.world
minus-square@SulaymanF@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish5•edit-211 months agoIt’s fun to snark on threads but yes, it had 100 million signups in a week and 50 million people still using it.
minus-square@SulaymanF@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish4•edit-211 months agoI don’t support Meta and they’re not a good company. I was merely answering the question about where people went. Meta is a public company though so they could get in legal trouble for false reports, and there’s also a bunch of ways advertisers can check metrics.
minus-square@d3Xt3r@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish1•11 months agoA big chunk of those would be bots/fake/spam accounts, ie not real users. Marketing companies have already started selling fake followers for Thread influencers. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/yes-already-buy-fake-followers-145053836.html
It’s fun to snark on threads but yes, it had 100 million signups in a week and 50 million people still using it.
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I don’t support Meta and they’re not a good company. I was merely answering the question about where people went.
Meta is a public company though so they could get in legal trouble for false reports, and there’s also a bunch of ways advertisers can check metrics.
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A big chunk of those would be bots/fake/spam accounts, ie not real users. Marketing companies have already started selling fake followers for Thread influencers.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/yes-already-buy-fake-followers-145053836.html