IFLScience by James Felton
Elon Musk has made a lot about how he is going to rid his newly-acquired social media site Twitter of the bots. On Sunday, part of that clean-up happened according to Musk, who triumphantly tweeted in emoji form that the bots were now dead.
Overall I would say 90% of the problem was fixed with whatever Elon and his team did today.
— Wall Street Silver (@WallStreetSilv) December 11, 2022
For a test of his own personal Twitter feed, Musk asked (again in emojis) that all bots and trolls attack him, before declaring “cool, the bots are so far unable to swarm to the top of my replies!”.
No detailed analysis has been published by Twitter or others to confirm that bot activity has decreased. However, while his fans declared it had taken Musk “41 days to fix a decade-long problem”, one Twitter user tweeted a two-word test that confirmed there is still some significant level of bot activity on the platform…
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