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Re:Elon Musk owns Twitter: The story so far by FormerBandmate on Friday October 28, 2022 @06:20PM (#33378713)
Musk hates bots mainly because of all the єɭ๏ภ ๓ยรк wants to give you free money scams. That isn't really caused by the API
Re:Elon Musk owns Twitter: The story so far by wildrhythms on Friday October 28, 2022 @07:03PM (#33379089)
The 'bots on Twitter' thing is perhaps one of the few things I agree with Musk about. Searching a hashtag like #javascript or #webdev or similar reveals a whole universe of obviously low quality content posting bots getting suspiciously the same number of likes and retweets on every post. Things like "Top 10 Web Languages You Need To Know" and the list is just randomly shuffled with link shorteners everywhere. This stuff is definitely polluting whatever sacred public square Musk seems to think Twitter needs to be. Obviously bots and spam is a monumental problem that transcends Twitter.