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[–] wattt@feddit.org 7 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] UiUiUiUiUi@piefed.nl 16 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Is there also a source for twitter traffic decrease?

[–] diaphragmwp@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)
[–] UiUiUiUiUi@piefed.nl 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] diaphragmwp@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

You linked to a fedi discussion of a news article. Saving everyone time, the evidence presented is:

Take Richard Tice for example. Below are three posts on X from the Reform deputy leader to his almost 400,000 followers on Monday, 11 October. At the time of writing, none of the posts had hit triple figures for reposts or comments, with one not even reaching 10,000 views.

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Before the Ukrainian strikes on the Russia data centres, Tice’s posts got considerably more engagement, consistently hitting triple figures for comments and reposts, whilst racking up hundreds of thousands of views.

None of us would have noticed because none of us use Xitter.

[–] ivn@tarte.nuage-libre.fr 10 points 2 weeks ago

This is about Yandex's bots, these are web crawlers. This has nothing to do with bots on X.