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Here is a chart of daily active users on Bluesky [obvs < total users] https://techcrunch.com/2023/09/22/bluesky-saw-record-usage-after-elon-musk-announced-plans-to-charge-all-x-users/?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAANg9P76nbQF90jG0ETSOUapJCg-OMSVrLkGGle-RgWTX355qrNd_hKUM6Nm4bSclCeeYhjQLqDJ8MurnNBouj_f9O2Fd4XoqAgeWEPLCV8XbPubnJghQnh4Y0TKCXYMIOQN3AirJg9JHzGMEoGA-cJEuNvn_pT9iaDpCCT1EL1vJ
Gabriele Pollara@t0nyyates interesting to see these data. Notable the article doesn't show whether Mastodon had similar spikes of interest when Bluesky did. I only mention because that happened many times last and this year.
AJ Thomas@t0nyyates
I still don’t get why people are moving to the billionaire that sold twittter to Musk. Frying pan and fire come to mind.
I still don’t get why people are moving to the billionaire that sold twittter to Musk. Frying pan and fire come to mind.
BashStKid@t0nyyates I wonder how those numbers break down geographically?
It would also be interesting to see some vague functional differentiation of what types of users they have, but I don’t imagine the commercial platforms will ever release that.
It would also be interesting to see some vague functional differentiation of what types of users they have, but I don’t imagine the commercial platforms will ever release that.
@BashStKid there are lots more data, and some less than reliable comments by the business owners/founders. Very hard to gauge overall network functionality.
Chris von Simson@t0nyyates are there bot estimates?
@chrisavs there were some exchanges between Musk and Twitter before he bought them. Probably not truthful on either side. Otherwise idk.
@t0nyyates I read (forget where) a direct quote from Musk explicitly linking the “charging to access the platform” as the only way to get rid of the bots. Seems to indicate a very large number of bots, and bots being a critical problem requiring a risky solution. Lots of estimates of 5-20%, and also 80% (https://www.f5.com/company/blog/bot-traffic-percentage-fake-accounts-expert)
I’m a former CIA cyber-operations officer who studies bot traffic. Here’s why it’s plausible that more than 80% of Twitter’s accounts are actually fake—and Twitter is not alone.
Dan Woods: When I consider the volume and velocity of automation we’re seeing today, the sophistication of bots that a given set of incentives is likely to attract, and the relative lack of countermeasures I saw in my own research, I can only come to one conclusion. In all likelihood, more than 80% of Twitter accounts are actually bots.
@chrisavs yeah I don’t believe Musk at all. I’m guessing about 0.1% based on my own followers. Unusual sample possibly.
@t0nyyates too random to believe, agreed.
Same rate for me, but I was a stickler for not allowing bot followers on the bird site.
Here, so far, it’s better. So far.
Same rate for me, but I was a stickler for not allowing bot followers on the bird site.
Here, so far, it’s better. So far.
@chrisavs I block them but I just mean the number of apparent bots compared to others following me.