The majority of traffic from Elon Musk's X may have been fake during the Super Bowl, report suggests

Technology@lemmy.world – 231 points – 8 months ago

The majority of traffic from Elon Musk's X may have been fake during the Super Bowl, report suggests::undefined

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149 upvotes on average and this comment is less than 19? Why do these fake fucks even give a shit about Lemmy?! Go the fuck away, you shitbags.

...what are you talking about? Lol

When X's Super Bowl traffic is compared to other social media platforms during the same time period, the bot issue on Musk's platform appears even more stark. …

Out of more than 40 million visits from TikTok, only 2.56 percent were determined to be fake. Facebook sent 8.1 million visits and 2.01 percent of the monitored visits were classified as inauthentic. And over on Instagram, only 0.73 percent of the 68,700 visits from the platform were fake.

Tytunovich tells Mashable that it's not out of the ordinary to see spikes in fake traffic on social media platforms during big events like U.S. elections. However, he has never seen anything close to X's 75.85 percent.

Twitter, Superbowl February 2023: 2.81%

“Bots!” Musk yelled, as if conjuring them up.

A war against them he declared, but really, he was just building his own army it seems.

Which would normally mean that Reddit is not far behind, unless their CEO has the brains to avoid stepping into this same trap. But since it's Huffman, they're screwed! 😆

Consequences of this discovery for Elon Musk and X:

Just during the Super Bowl?

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During the Super Bowl is the shocking news! Who the fuck still uses that shit?