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

submitted 1 year ago by stopthatgirl7@kbin.social to c/technology@lemmy.world

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We took a close look at Elon Musk's more than 150 million followers on X aka Twitter. What we found is…concerning.

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[–] to55@discuss.tchncs.de 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

This man is incorporating the same tactic that Trump has during his presidency: launch a psychopathic publicity stunt nearly every day, to get as much media coverage as possible. Negative attention is attention too, they don’t care. They just want to be talked about as much as possible and they seem to be doing an excellent job at accomplishing that.

[–] tastysnacks@programming.dev 6 points 1 year ago

I call it the crazy girlfriend technique.