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Elon Musk tells Dave Portnoy he has plan to address number of Twitter bots
Fox News ^ | October 18, 2022 12:34am EDT | Landon Mion

Posted on 10/18/2022 12:19:18 AM PDT by Olog-hai

Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk said Monday he has a plan to tackle the high number of spam robots or “bots” on Twitter, as he intends to purchase the social media company.

Dave Portnoy, the founder of Barstool Sports, complained in a tweet to Musk Monday night that he was seeing too many bots on the platform. […]

Bots are automated accounts that help drive traffic on Twitter. They appear like real accounts controlled by a person. They retweet posts, like posts and follow other accounts. Advertisers, marketing agencies and other companies are looking to reach real human accounts, not bots.

In May, Musk threatened to back out of his bid to buy Twitter for $44 billion, citing concern over the number of bot and spam accounts on the platform. Musk has said he believes the bots make up upwards of 20% of accounts on Twitter. Twitter said the number of spam or bot accounts is less than 5%. …

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: bots; elonmusk; musk; twitter

1 posted on 10/18/2022 12:19:18 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

bots are retardly stupid, just a script file


2 posted on 10/18/2022 12:23:59 AM PDT by mylife (And I would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for you meddling kids...)
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To: Olog-hai

ai leaves no fingerprints /s


3 posted on 10/18/2022 12:26:46 AM PDT by mylife (And I would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for you meddling kids...)
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To: Olog-hai

Mindless sportsball talk on Twitter, dwarfs political talk.


4 posted on 10/18/2022 12:46:34 AM PDT by dennisw
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To: dennisw

“One bite, everybody knows the rules”


5 posted on 10/18/2022 6:43:08 AM PDT by CTyank
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To: CTyank

“One bite, everybody knows the rules”

Matter of fact, I used to watch Portnoy’s pizza rating videos. I got a lick out of them. But have not looked in 18 months. He is now selling his own line of frozen pizzas, with that slogan on each box.


6 posted on 10/18/2022 7:41:19 AM PDT by dennisw
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7 posted on 10/18/2022 9:01:07 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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