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Elon Musk's X follower count bloated by millions of new, inactive accounts(mashable.com)

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Shazbot@lemmy.world
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Elon: “There are too many fake accounts for me to seriously consider buying this company.”

Also Elon, after creating millions of inactive accounts to follow himself: “Please clap.”

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don@lemm.ee
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So he’s in the “fake it till you make it” phase. “If we pretend there’s trillions using our service, surely trillions of real users will eventually come! 👍”

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BrainisfineIthink@lemmy.one
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I was thinking today how ridiculously accurate silicone valley (the show) has turned out to be. It feels like CEOs and mid level managers all watched that show and completely missed the fact that it was SATIRE.

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WrittenWeird@lemmy.world
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Was it “Veep” that cancelled because they couldn’t outdo reality? If Silicon Valley were still going, this Twitter trainwreck would surely spell it’s end.

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andrew@lemmy.stuart.fun
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Only 7 generations if we double every time. Gotta pump up those population numbers by getting mars started and by getting rid of birth control.

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Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world
54 points

Probably an engineer that was threatened with being fired if he doesn’t figure out how to get Musk millions of new followers.

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fubo@lemmy.world
36 points

So wait, he’s stooped to being a shitty copy of Steve “spez” Huffman?

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themajesticdodo@lemmy.world
23 points

Can this sub shut the fuck up about this joker for a day or two? Pathetic.

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Squander@lemmy.world
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Hey mods! can you at least make it so the L4SBOT isnt posting Musk articles, this community already has plenty

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ilikekeyboards@lemmy.world
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I’ll just block OP

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Squander@lemmy.world
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OP is a bot. A pretty good bot, it keeps the sub fresh with new articles. We just need to stop talking about this guy.

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Kikkertje@aussie.zone
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It’s like watching a train wreck in slow motion. I just can’t look away!

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assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world
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It’s enjoyable to hear about his continual and repeated fuck ups. All publicity is not good publicity.

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