Elena Rossini 🌈16h 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 threadtanavit16h ago

@_elena

Thanks for this article.

From my point of view, W acts as a startup : buzzing in media, exposing a steep adoption, brief a big public relation campaign.

I suspect it is actually waiting to be bought by a bigger group

Show threadElena Rossini 🌈16h ago
@tanavit yes! I'm thinking LIDL / Schwarz group, as they have ambitions to become Europe's AWS
Show threadtanavit

@_elena

I was thinking of BlueSky 😏.

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Show threadElena Rossini 🌈16h ago
@tanavit I think Bluesky PBC doesn't like them so much right now, as they pulled a Trumpian Truth Social and took the ATproto code closed-source... but who knows? 🤷🏻‍♀️
Show threadtanavit16h ago

@_elena

That is a good reason to buy them, in order to supress a competitor and to absorb their users.