↪ I'd say about ~15%+ of new followers one has are these bots. But, there's still an awfull lot of good intel that gets posted
I'm now convinced that keeping #advertisers away from #Mastodon restricts revenue for instances that could upgrade their kit to handle a new influx of #Twitterati
Imagine if #ElonMusk suddenly has a system outage and VAST numbers of #twitterati sign up to all the other services and #Mastodon got just one third of them... ⤵
AKA the New Twitterati (huge followings & outsized influence).
The other types are Twilluminati (cryptic practices & unknowable goals) & Twittletariat (those who labor for every fav, RT, & must seize the memes of production before they're crushed under the heels of the other two.
#typology
#Twitterati
#Twilluminati
#Twittletariat
From: @chargrille
https://progressives.social/@chargrille/112148805268610038
From October 2023: https://www.cip.uw.edu/2023/10/20/new-elites-twitter-x-most-influential-accounts-hamas-israel/ #IsraelPalestine #MediaLiteracy
Some views on what used to be the blue bird from Brussels #Twitterati. Interesting overview of opinions. Key takeaway? For certain things, a valid replacement isn't there yet, despite disillusiononment over the current state. Via politico {not sure what account here for EU...}
https://www.politico.eu/article/twitter-elon-musk-x-eu-tweeter-rebrand/
Dear #journalists and other #Twitterati, who are finally on #mastodon!
A. Welcome! Good to have you here!
B. Please don't recreate your Twitter behaviour here.
You have an opportunity to build something new here. Grab it with BOTH hands. Come down from your ivory towers. Build a community not a following.
Hot on the heels of him targeting America's workhorse public health worker as Mengele 2.0 he is not mass-gagging #twitterati.
@Fl0ps @mikemadrid
Elon may have flicked the #Twitterati the bird, but he has vaingloriously lit $Billions on fire; and he has eliminated any question about his reputation in the court of public opinion. Everybody knows that Elon is no Tony Stark, but has come out of the closet as a fascist tw@t, and an enabler of dictatorship. The US needs to terminate all of his contracts.
The #Resistance is not dead, but it has found safe havens across the virtual universe.