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Rolling StoneEXCLUSIVE: Elon Musk has used Twitter polls to justify moves such as reinstating Trump’s account, but employees tell Rolling Stone the social network’s surveys are magnets for bots. They’re literally designed to be spammed and gamed. https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/elon-musk-twitter-polls-are-bot-driven-bullsht-1234639288/
Martin Vermeer FCD@RollingStone Really... couldn't have guessed 🤣 🤣 🤣
Farah@RollingStone no shit Sherlock
Toxteth O'Grady@RollingStone I figured as much. In fact, it was amusing to me that while Elon Musk's account followers are 70% bots, his poll only showed only a 52% "yes" vote for reinstating Trump. Thus my speculation that some of Musk's bots rebelled against him...
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Alice Wetterlund 
@RollingStone @toxtethogrady wait hahah for real?
@alicewetterlund @RollingStone That was my reaction when Musk's poll was only a 52-48 split. One of those programs that counts bots claimed 70% of Musk's followers (and 70% of those following Joe Biden) exhibited bot characteristics. The great thing about the bot counters is they all come up with different answers. Twitter's own bot counter (which was there before Musk) counted far fewer, but Musk didn't believe it...
DEguy007@RollingStone I’m not at all suprised by this!
Aaron Fowles@RollingStone vox machinarum, vox dei.
Pardon my bad latin. I used Google.
Angry Centrist@afowles @RollingStone "vox machinarum, vox Elmo" 🤣
GillianA 🌺@RollingStone what a shocker! 😂😒
Jake Jarvis 
@RollingStone I thought that was, like, his day one top-priority job? and rationalization for [being forced into] spending $44b?
wonder why he suddenly stopped caring around the time of his cringey Latin-butchering polls.
Christian Ohanian@RollingStone I’m shocked to hear that this was not a methodologically sound way to make important decisions…shocked…
securityskeptic 
Steve YelvingtonElon's polls are:
The work of a genetic superman
Fun for the whole family
Absolutely accurate predictions of the future
Bot-infested dumpster fires
Poll ended at .
laserfox@RollingStone someone should set up a boring poll on a Twitter user account with no followers, and buy some bots to prove how these polls can be easily manipulated:
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/elon-musk-twitter-polls-are-bot-driven-bullsht-1234639288/
Glyn Moody@glynmoody @RollingStone @yamthief we all suspect it is true. I hope someone (maybe a journalist) would prove it and publish the results.
@laserfox @RollingStone @yamthief life is too short, not least given the other problems we have to grapple with...
Travis@laserfox @RollingStone @glynmoody @yamthief But then we'd have to have a Twitter account again. Sorry, can't help you with this!
Shingo Mouse 🌳@laserfox @RollingStone @glynmoody @yamthief
Well, someone could try that and have the question be something along the lines of the following to see if the trollbots would vote yes on it and cause the alt-right to shoot themselves in the foot.
Question: Should Elon Musk be forcefully removed from Twitter's premises with the previous CEO reinstated, and be given a prison sentence for all the BS he has been doing over there?
● Yes
● No
Patrick LaForge@RollingStone Not entirely sure what's exclusive about that but it's worth reminding people
Eric Darnley Small@RollingStone Breaking News: Elon Musk's Twitter polls are fake. Also breaking: water is wet. Now back to our regularly scheduled programming....
Ido Amir@RollingStone I guess the moral is: Don't trust dishonest people..🤷
ShonTroelstrup@RollingStone there’s really no excuse to use that site anymore.
𝑭𝑶𝑹𝑬𝑽𝑬𝑹 𝑯𝑨𝑰𝑹𝒀 🤷♂️
Rod Hilton@RollingStone I object to the premise that he actually used the results of the poll to inform the decision. He mentioned reinstating Trump months ago, before he even owned the company. He was always going to do this, he just made the poll so that he could evade personal responsibility for the decision.
@Bestestgrammie@RollingStone I think we all rather knew this.
Bart Champagne ON6BC 
@RollingStone No shit. You don't say ?
Kris@RollingStone I'm shocked. SHOCKED, I tell you!
GSStamas@RollingStone It appears that the excuses he made about why he wanted to back out of buying the site was partly true. Now that he owns it, he's determined to make the rest of those excuses a reality. Bizarre.
dan tynan@RollingStone and in today’s least surprising news…
toys0ldierhad a moment of Deja Vu when I read this. Is it 2010 again?
@RollingStone As suspected
Angus Marshall 
@RollingStone We already knew that.
GrumpyDonut@RollingStone probably the only vote that the far right thought wasn't rigged.
Andrew@RollingStone But... but... I thought he hated bots! Shocking!
Dale Redding@RollingStone You shouldn't believe everything on the internet
Lorry@RollingStone I liked:
"#Twitter did not immediately respond to questions from Rolling Stone, likely because #Musk fired the company’s communications team."
Beara@RollingStone my question is how does he not realize this? I mean I don't doubt that he has very little knowledge of the company he's trying to run but this just seems like common knowledge
PammyStarr 
✍️@RollingStone exactly what I suspected.
ProtectDemocracyEverywhere 🌊@RollingStone I feel at this point like his faux hesitation to purchase twitter “because there are so many bots” was actually a way he was trying to establish how many there were so he could use them for his fake vox populi polls.
SwastodonHeb van dit WK eigenlijk niks gezien uit principe, maar vind het wel jammer voor spelers en supporters.
Merci gasten voor jaren plezier, jolijt en euforie.
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En de usual suspects - ook wel gekend als niks-presterende arrogante eikels - komen ook nu weer naar voor. Uiteraard.
Jullie haters bereikten nog niet 0.0000001% van dit alles. En zullen dat ook nooit doen.
Jullie haters bereikten nog niet 0.0000001% van dit alles. En zullen dat ook nooit doen.
@RollingStone haha. Who would have thought.
John D'oh
SueD@RollingStone sounds like the left needs more bots
@RollingStone
All polls are BS.
All polls are BS.
1anniem@RollingStone Of course they are...or he wouldn't do them!
@RollingStone Well, if the surveys on Twitter are magnets for alt-right and magat bots, then it could explain why it appears Elon Musk is caving to the wrong people.
@RollingStone … zero surprise …
John@RollingStone vox automata, vox idoli
@RollingStone Well yeah. Twitter 101.
edBright@RollingStone
He wrote “Vox Populi, Vox Dei” but maybe, “Vox Egomet, Vox Populi” is the intent? Seems sufficiently arrogant that Dei = Ego. IMO that is.
He wrote “Vox Populi, Vox Dei” but maybe, “Vox Egomet, Vox Populi” is the intent? Seems sufficiently arrogant that Dei = Ego. IMO that is.
Desperate Measures
Bad at Names@RollingStone Everyone knew that, but at least Rolling Stone said it too. Those polls were the most obvious fakes since Elon’s hair.
Ann Lipton@RollingStone Do you mean to tell me Musk is not genuinely interested in making moderation decisions based on the consensus of the community? I may fall over.
@Lee_in_Iowa@annmlipton @RollingStone Shocked, I say. Shocked.