A Lot of What Happened in Twitter Was Bots, Botfarms, and Troll Farms. It's Even Worse Now (Under X.com) and People Are Noticing.
Last month: YouTube is a Spamfarm, Slopfarm, and Clickfarm (a Lot of Numbers There Are Fake)
Social control media is an utterly disgraceful practice/ritual. It's also a bubble that rests on addiction (FOMO) or the false perception that many people are there and "engage" there. In reality, it's possible that well over 90% of what's happening there is not "organic" but "synthetic" (the percentage depends on the platform and topic/user). Large social control media companies, such as Facebook ("Meta"), even openly and shamelessly say they want to add bots to their platform. In other words, to them bots aren't the problem and - worse yet - they wish to actively contribute to this. They fake importance of popularity. That's just their goal.
The other day David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH), who is now a loud promoter of GNU/Linux [1, 2], noticed obvious anomalies in MElon's combative, strident, abrasive platform:
It's not just X.com. Last month we said the same was happening in YouTube. Having just quickly checked SPAMNIL there, it seems clear that well over 90% (maybe 99% in some cases) of his B2B spam ("content") gets clickfraud. And well over 95% of the "engagement" is also clickfraud. Almost no humans watch this stuff. He's basically an online scammer/spammer on the payroll of the Linux Foundation. This is what it boils down to. █