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Elon Musk's X follower count bloated by millions of new, inactive accounts (mashable.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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We took a close look at Elon Musk's more than 150 million followers on X aka Twitter. What we found is…concerning.

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[–] atrielienz 1 points 1 year ago

They did it to stop chat gpt from scraping them. They absolutely used it to kill 3rs party apps to drive more users to their own app. But let's be serious here. They were protecting their repository of community collected and curated information. Like. I absolutely think Spez was all "win win" when they came up with this.