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Re:Twitter 2.0: Our continued commitment to the public conve... by 14u2c on Wednesday November 30, 2022 @02:31PM (#33806284)
Maybe they are referring to Elon's recent unhinged polls as testing.
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Re:Twitter 2.0: Our continued commitment to the public conve... by giantrobot on Wednesday November 30, 2022 @05:30PM (#33808851)
Hey: vox populi, vox dei!

It's Latin so it must be smart.

Apparently Twitter had some huge problem with bots when Musk was trying to get out of the purchase. Thankfully he solved the bot problem after the purchase so he could run polls and really get the will of the people and not, you know, all those previously problematic bots.

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Re:Twitter 2.0: Our continued commitment to the public conve... by bryananderson on Wednesday November 30, 2022 @05:37PM (#33808945)
Except when a poll gets a lot of votes that he doesn’t like, in which case he says “looks like the bots are out in force today!”
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Re:Twitter 2.0: Our continued commitment to the public conve... by giantrobot on Wednesday November 30, 2022 @06:48PM (#33809812)
Good ol' Schrödinger's bots.
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Re:Twitter 2.0: Our continued commitment to the public conve... by edavis on Wednesday November 30, 2022 @05:59PM (#33809234)
> It's Latin so it must be smart.

It's perfect, in a way, that the full quote is "Nec audiendi qui solent dicere, Vox populi, vox Dei, quum tumultuositas vulgi semper insaniae proxima sit." which translates to "And those people should not be listened to who keep saying the voice of the people is the voice of God, since the riotousness of the crowd is always very close to madness."

Refs: https://twitter.com/cagrimmett/status/1595967787339743232

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