Elon Musk's X follower count bloated by millions of new, inactive accounts
mashable.com
We took a close look at Elon Musk's more than 150 million followers on X aka Twitter. What we found is…concerning.
  • SpeedLimit55@lemmy.world
    71·
    11 months ago

    I’ve had a twitter account for years and never tweet or like anything. It’s a pain to view without being logged in.

    • GhostMutt@lemmy.zip
      71·
      11 months ago

      The article goes through some of the available data and doesn’t make hard conclusions, nothing that many of the accounts with no followers or posts are likely lurkers, amongst the bots and others.

      • SpeedLimit55@lemmy.world
        110·
        11 months ago

        Yeah I noticed that, I think a lot of accounts that appear to be bots or empty are just lurkers like me. It’s still the best place for sports news and updates.

        • reddig33@lemmy.worldOP
          232·
          11 months ago

          If you read the article, they point out that a lot of these accounts don’t follow anyone but Musk. I would think that people following sports would be following sports-related accounts.