<story><title>The majority of traffic from X may have been fake during the Super Bowl</title><url>https://mashable.com/article/x-twitter-elon-musk-bots-fake-traffic</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>candiddevmike</author><text>&amp;gt; someone chimes in about how much better the conversations&amp;#x2F;etc are on Twitter since Musk took over&lt;p&gt;I always assume these types of comments are some kind of dog whistle</text></item><item><author>unshavedyak</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s interesting to me how hot and cold descriptions are of Twitter. You get posts like these, but then someone chimes in about how much better the conversations&amp;#x2F;etc are on Twitter since Musk took over.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m not on Twitter so i can&amp;#x27;t really make sense of it. I feel like i see more negative than positive.. but still.. it&amp;#x27;s bizarre to me that there&amp;#x27;s people in both camps. More than likely some of them are biased.. but still, i find it &amp;quot;interesting&amp;quot;.</text></item><item><author>lucidone</author><text>Every day I get new followers on twitter that are sex bots and onlyfans catfishes. Nothing else. Seems like the platform is a wasteland.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Zigurd</author><text>The &amp;quot;It&amp;#x27;s better now&amp;quot; comments are always of the same form, and never any examples of some great discussion. That&amp;#x27;s lazy, even for a bot.</text></comment>
<story><title>The majority of traffic from X may have been fake during the Super Bowl</title><url>https://mashable.com/article/x-twitter-elon-musk-bots-fake-traffic</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>candiddevmike</author><text>&amp;gt; someone chimes in about how much better the conversations&amp;#x2F;etc are on Twitter since Musk took over&lt;p&gt;I always assume these types of comments are some kind of dog whistle</text></item><item><author>unshavedyak</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s interesting to me how hot and cold descriptions are of Twitter. You get posts like these, but then someone chimes in about how much better the conversations&amp;#x2F;etc are on Twitter since Musk took over.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m not on Twitter so i can&amp;#x27;t really make sense of it. I feel like i see more negative than positive.. but still.. it&amp;#x27;s bizarre to me that there&amp;#x27;s people in both camps. More than likely some of them are biased.. but still, i find it &amp;quot;interesting&amp;quot;.</text></item><item><author>lucidone</author><text>Every day I get new followers on twitter that are sex bots and onlyfans catfishes. Nothing else. Seems like the platform is a wasteland.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>refulgentis</author><text>Rephrasing for people who will react negatively to that. You&amp;#x27;re making an important point but &amp;quot;dog whistle&amp;quot; assumes some things:&lt;p&gt;Those are people speaking abstractly about how much more free their speech is*.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve &lt;i&gt;never&lt;/i&gt; heard that common phrasing used, in &lt;i&gt;any&lt;/i&gt; setting, to refer to a change in Twitter user makeup, or it becoming a kinder place. Whether I&amp;#x27;m in the company of team left or team right, and coding as same team or opposite team.&lt;p&gt;* yr humble author refuses comment and does not endorse this viewpoint, or that anything changed on this front</text></comment>