Elena Rossini 🌈21h 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.

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@_elena Damn, I lost the link, but did you also see the page where they "explain" where Euro political figures are with two categories. One is X, the other one is "ATProto / W Social" implying that they're on WSocial when really they're on Bluesky/Eurosky... Of course, once again, the Fediverse doesn't exist for them.
Jun 25 at 8:45amWeb