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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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[–] Cheems 78 points 1 year ago

What a small insecure individual

[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And remember…this dipshit spent 44 billion on it.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

44 billion for 150 million followers... thats almost 300 dollars per follower. And most of those are fake!

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Imagine having all the resources in the world and then spending all your time on something only 12 year olds think is impressive.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

He’s got the mental maturity of a 12 year old, so it makes sense.

[–] DeriHunter 17 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I swear to god, you can't scroll all in lemmy these days.. Every other post is about Twitter or elon musk.. I don't understand why people stay there, talk about it and giving this man child the attention

fuck this platform and fuck this guy

[–] BradleyUffner 8 points 1 year ago

Yeah! Why would people be interested in talking about some of the biggest names in tech making idiotic decisions motivated by greed, hubris, and vanity? That's totally boring! We should all be talking about switching to Linux, beans, and flashlights!!!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, we need some sort of Elon Musk filter

[–] walrusintraining 1 points 1 year ago

There’s a lot of apps that let you filter words or phrases if it’s not built into lemmy

[–] walrusintraining 1 points 1 year ago

There’s a lot of apps that let you filter words or phrases if it’s not built into lemmy

[–] affiliate 15 points 1 year ago

probably a lot easier to make a ton of fake accounts when you own the website

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] PilferJynx 2 points 1 year ago

Currently. There's still a tiny bit of hope at the bottom of the box.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Concerning for who? I couldn't care less

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It’s a play on how Elon often replies to things with just “concerning.”

[–] MargotRobbie 5 points 1 year ago

At least these accounts are inactive, instead of actively asking for feet pics.

Ugh. I think Quinton Tarantino alone made at least half of these accounts.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

There are very few things I could give less of a fuck about then a follow count

[–] foggy 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

:surprised pikachu:

[–] Gingerlegs -3 points 1 year ago

Omg noooo waaaay