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Re:Twitter Is Dying by karp773 on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @08:24PM (#35350212)
Tons of bots.

EDIT: It used to be crypto bots. Now it's mostly american far right (or foreign agents pretending to be american far right) bots. Sorry, no link here, just personal experience.

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Re:Twitter Is Dying by agotterer on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @10:01PM (#35351182)
I’ve seen a huge reduction in bots over the last 2 months. I hardly get tagged by them anymore and I rarely see them in my feed.

Edit: grammar

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Re:Twitter Is Dying by guerrilla on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @01:14PM (#35360202)
Are you unpopular? I have around 1k followers and my inbox is constantly filled with spam now.
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Re:Twitter Is Dying by prottog on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @09:44PM (#35350987)
> Now it's mostly american far right (or foreign agents pretending to be american far right) bots

Is it possible, given the revelations of the Twitter Files, that those viewpoints were (whether bot-originated or not) suppressed until recently?

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Re:Twitter Is Dying by ramraj07 on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @09:48PM (#35351025)
So let’s say the suppression was mainly aimed at bots. Let’s just say that most bots were right wing, what do you want happening here? Let the site be run by bots?
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Re:Twitter Is Dying by prottog on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @09:50PM (#35351046)
Obviously I and any other Twitter user would like it to be free of bots.
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Re:Twitter Is Dying by wetpaws on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @10:05PM (#35351215)
Not in my feed.
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