Elena Rossini 🌈1d ago

SCOOP: on #WSocial's website, comment counts for posts by prominent users are incorrectly displayed, showing artificially elevated numbers.

An ATproto user came up with an interesting theory for it.

My article: "W Social, Fictional Metrics and the Beauty of Open Data"

🔗 : https://blog.elenarossini.com/w-social-fictional-metrics-and-the-beauty-of-open-data/

#blog #BigTech #EUBigTech #TEP #TrustedEuropeanPlatforms #TrustYourFeed

W Social, Fictional Metrics and the Beauty of Open Data

W Social's tagline is "Trust Your Feed" but the company's landing page displays inflated engagement metrics - a misrepresentation that contradicts its own promise.

Elena Rossini
Show threadMichael Gale
@_elena so it's really turning out to be " trump social lite" huh
Jun 25 at 8:12amWeb
Show threadElena Rossini 🌈1d ago
@miclgael even Musk didn't stoop so low as to fake numbers... but asked his engineers to change X's algorithm to boost his visibility 😏