China bots flood Twitter with porn spam to drown protest news

Twitter faces scrutiny for relying too much on automated content removal.

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Porn is freedom of speech, ladies and gentlemen. /s

Elon Musk truly painted the world's largest target on his back personally, in any sense you can possibly imagine, by buying Twitter and doesn't even have a clue yet.

 

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Several (Conservative) sites reposted that Elon had released some stats from Twitter showing higher sign ups and lower reports of confirmed negative posts.

I have to wonder how the negative posts get reported. Likely by the moderation team? He pretty much wiped out the moderation staff in many countries.

I think we all know at this point it doesn't matter if he gets higher sign-ups if he has no possible way of telling who has done the following:

1) Disabled notifications for the app on their phone
2) Uninstalled the app on their phone
3) Is viewing but not posting
and of course the worst parts:
4) Who is either barely logging in, in maintenance or 'wait-and-see' mode heavily loaded up with ad/script blockers or has stopped using the service for longer than 30 days.

It's the latter metric he's going to get and stay blind to for the next few months and will only be able to compare to similar stats in similar months from the year prior to figure out if his conservative/libertarian fanbase can make up the difference with advertisers fleeing and regulators salivating over the prospect of ordering the IRS to garnish his corporate bank accounts.

 

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I know I personally reserve the utmost respect for all works "Published On Twitter Itself." What an honor! He must know somebody.

How long can it go on like this, with him threatening to "expose" the 99% of people who are openly un-receptive to his awkward villainy? At what point does he realize that yes, we know exactly what has been going on this whole time, we apparently understand it better than he does, and it all makes him look like a piece of garbage?

Probably never.

Either Twitter is taken down in a hacking attack on its infrastructure in a way the unmaintained backup system can't or won't fix (in such a chaotic environment the simplest way to do this is to sneak in a delayed payload that gets seeded into the backups and grinds the speed of the service to a halt rather than destroys things) or it goes the way of LiveJournal and MySpace.

Simple fact of the matter is regardless of Twitter's impressive user numbers in the last decade, simply not as much of the American public was using it that he hoped, it makes a pretty rotten bully pulpit when no one wants to use it anyway and it gets used to distribute malware.

The clincher will be when Elon is hit by his own right flank for porn distribution (not merely artists either) and it becomes Tumblr'd. If you can believe it the man has even less self awareness than Trump, probably from being an actual billionaire.