Twitter Bots Were Everyone

I lost around 50,000 followers since Twitter began banning bots. I'm now sitting at around 90 followers. Every single one of my mutuals I've interacted with in the past 8 years have been bots and I never even realized. Go beyond the obvious here, and realize how frightening it is that there are social media influencers out there who truly believe the majority is on their side, but it was all bot accounts all along; no one was actually listening to them. They were yelling into a void, which was sending back fake voices of approval and affirmation. If that isn't a modern horror story, you're not paying attention.

A screenshot of a Twitter post says the author lost about 50,000 followers after bots were banned and now has around 90 followers, realizing that nearly all of their mutuals were bots. Below it, commentary explains the unsettling idea that influencers may have been shouting into a void while fake accounts echoed approval, turning social media into a modern horror story. It is shared as a darkly humorous reaction to fake engagement, online popularity and the unreliability of social-media validation. EN: A screenshot of a Twitter post says the author lost about 50,000 followers after bots were banned and now has around 90 followers, realizing that nearly all of their mutuals were bots. Below it, commentary explains the unsettling idea that influencers may have been shouting into a void while fake accounts echoed approval, turning social media into a modern horror story. It is shared as a darkly humorous reaction to fake engagement, online popularity and the unreliability of social-media validation.

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