psychothumbs@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago"They need us. We don't need them:" The fall of Twitter is making the trolls and grifters desperatewww.salon.comexternal-linkmessage-square126fedilinkarrow-up1753arrow-down168cross-posted to: twitter@lemmy.world
arrow-up1685arrow-down1external-link"They need us. We don't need them:" The fall of Twitter is making the trolls and grifters desperatewww.salon.compsychothumbs@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square126fedilinkcross-posted to: twitter@lemmy.world
minus-squareSulaymanF@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·edit-21 year agoI don’t support Meta and they’re not a good company. I was merely answering the question about where people went. Meta is a public company though so they could get in legal trouble for false reports, and there’s also a bunch of ways advertisers can check metrics.
minus-squared3Xt3r@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoA big chunk of those would be bots/fake/spam accounts, ie not real users. Marketing companies have already started selling fake followers for Thread influencers. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/yes-already-buy-fake-followers-145053836.html
minus-squarePeleSpirit@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·1 year ago Meta is a public company though so they could get in legal trouble for false reports They sold our info to the Russians, I doubt they worry too much about false number reports. https://www.wired.com/story/facebook-gave-russian-internet-giant-special-data-extension/
I don’t support Meta and they’re not a good company. I was merely answering the question about where people went.
Meta is a public company though so they could get in legal trouble for false reports, and there’s also a bunch of ways advertisers can check metrics.
A big chunk of those would be bots/fake/spam accounts, ie not real users. Marketing companies have already started selling fake followers for Thread influencers.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/yes-already-buy-fake-followers-145053836.html
They sold our info to the Russians, I doubt they worry too much about false number reports. https://www.wired.com/story/facebook-gave-russian-internet-giant-special-data-extension/