Loading ...Elon to get Twitter’s “firehose” after all … since numerous OTHER companies have had it for years
“Currently some two dozen companies pay for access to the trove, which comprises not only a real-time record of tweets but the devices they tweet from, as well as information about the accounts that tweet.”
TexSwede
June 8, 2022 7:21 pm
Reply to TexSwede
An added thought. If the data identifies device type, an interesting analysis would be to see if the T&Cs of the device manufacturer (e.g., Apple iPhones) are being violated. I would also look to see if any privacy statutes (federal or state) are being violated. This may be bigger than the bot number.
I can see an AG like Texas AG Paxton digging into this. In fact, I think I will suggest he do so.
Doppler
June 8, 2022 7:37 pm
Reply to TexSwede
“So, who are the 2 dozen companies with this access? What do they do with the data? Does Twitter’s terms of service inform users of this fact?” These are key questions, likely to reveal something about the surveillance public-private partnership that’s been around since the PATRIOT ACT to collect everything digital about everyone, and use it to conduct highly effective targeted ads, plus Deep State use to control the populace, and to shape the nature and the direction of cultural shift.
There’s probably a lot more bots out there than 5%, but the reasons they’re there are perhaps various and non-obvious. I had initially assumed they were there to inflate numbers, which is likely, but not necessarily the exclusive motivation.
If you’re doing PR, having bots to serve as a Greek Chorus of agreement over what your PR message is would also be valuable. If you’re working a Great Reset, or Communist Revolution, then a Greek Chorus of agreement over and immediate adoption of the latest politically correct fad terminology would be valuable. If you’re inciting panic to justify emergency powers, If you’re vilifying individuals or organizations or movements to remake them as “enemies of the state,” in order to justify use of police power against their “racist hate speech” (see politically correct definition thereof), then having a Greek Chorus of agreement with everything said is very valuable.
Somehow, I feel Elon is either a super super genius, or that he is working with other forces of light behind the scene, who perhaps already know who and what the sources and purposes of some of those bots are all about, and are using the “Elon takeover method,” in preference to the whistleblower method, which has been thoroughly discredited for many years.
Sundance, an obvious force of light, suggested that Twitter was being subsidized. It is possible that some of such a “subsidy” could come in the form of government contracts from Deep State agencies to Twitter to generate bots as part of a digital age extension of the Mockingbird Project, to influence the population toward right think, and away from dangerous (to the state) alternative thinking.
Jeff Tucker at Epoch Times weighs in …
https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/how-fake-twitters-user-data
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