psychothumbs@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years ago"They need us. We don't need them:" The fall of Twitter is making the trolls and grifters desperatewww.salon.comexternal-linkmessage-square144fedilinkarrow-up1751arrow-down169cross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up1682arrow-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 · 2 years agomessage-square144fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-squareSulaymanF@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·edit-22 years 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-up2·2 years 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-down1·2 years 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/