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Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources by tshaddox on Monday April 25, 2022 @06:12PM (#31161422)
> It's like me calling you and you liking what I have to say and then calling all your friends to tell them, modern tech makes that easier. Robocalling is more akin to running a script to spam users via a bot, wouldn't you say?

When you share something on Twitter, there is literally a script (executed by Twitter) that shares that same thing with all your followers. That's essentially the primary mechanism of Twitter, and I would argue that it's fundamentally very different than you choosing to call everyone to know to tell them something (at least for people with more than, say, Dunbar's number of followers). Because of the fact that it's automated, essentially instant, and essentially unbounded in its reach, it is mechanically much more similar to robocalling than to calling your friends to tell them something.

Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources by brigandish on Monday April 25, 2022 @09:13PM (#31162883)
Perhaps I shouldn't have used the word "script". That's it's a script is an implementation detail, it's not automated like a bot. In the same way, if we focus on the mechanism of a call then a robocall is not much different to a human.

> I would argue that it's fundamentally very different than you choosing to call everyone to know

Okay, one is a broadcast to subscribers and the other is single calls to subscribers. The end result is the same, again, the difference is in implementation and convenience.