MortWellian OP t1_j1bcnv2 wrote on December 23, 2022 at 1:16 AM

Reply to comment by distantapplause in Musk’s Frequent Twitter Polls Are at Risk of Bot Manipulation | New research shows votes can be easily purchased during Twitter polls by MortWellian

A lot of his fan boys, and tbh I kind of think he drank his own koolaid with his love of polls.

Very true, that he's now going with "only blues" voting he's just reinforcing the echo chamber of his threads.

Brothernod t1_j1bpayp wrote on December 23, 2022 at 2:55 AM

For all we know he’s leaning on the polls with his own bots.

MortWellian OP t1_j1btzlb wrote on December 23, 2022 at 3:33 AM

Maybe? I'm just guessing by the leave/go post that he has little to know control on how polls break with getting spanked hard. Also not sure how well bots scale to the numbers that took that poll, how many would he have to use to keep it to a 15% loss?

I keep coming to things like his interpretation of Freedom of Speech and the reporters are still being blocked from posting. The man has his blindspots and I think he was honestly shook by the outcome rather than his bot army was that overwhelmed.

Brothernod t1_j1bulge wrote on December 23, 2022 at 3:38 AM

I don’t know, and this is all pure conjecture, but I found the difference between the reinstate trump poll and the new ceo poll to be interesting.

Coupled with the rumors of him getting spanked by his Saudi Investors at the World Cup just a day before the poll, it felt like he had to go and was just trying to save face.

He played the exact same game when he did a poll about selling stock and paying taxes on it a couple years ago when he was really just trying to prevent a sell off while he cashed out.

MortWellian OP t1_j1bx5rh wrote on December 23, 2022 at 3:59 AM

He did say in Nov (iirc) publicly he was planning the hand off, I thought he was going that route myself, but this report reminded me that after going quiet he said “maybe we might still have an itsy bitsy bot problem on Twitter.”, I'm just not getting it was a war of bot armies, but pure wild ass guessing on my part as well.