Name: Twitter Bots and Elon Musk's Crusade Against Them
Uploaded: 2022-06-10T17:00:43.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Twitter Bots and Elon Musk's Crusade Against Them' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-06-10. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Twitter Bots and Elon Musk's Crusade Against Them' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-06-10. Transcript available.

the Joe Rogan experience and that's a problem generally that a lot of people
have with the censorship that's on social media Twitter in particular you
know one of the weird things that's happening now with Elon Musk buying
Twitter or attempting to buy Twitter they've done something different and one
of things they've done different is I gained now it's 900,000 followers in the
month or so what yes I mean a lot of people really like you so maybe 900,000
people were like I think I was in a box I think I was well Megan Kelly said the
same thing did you hear her say that she said she gained a lot she gained a ton
like oh like a hundred thousand or I don't remember the number but a lot like
it was really noticeable and so she was like she's like I'm pretty sure Twitter
was you know shadow me messing yeah around with my account yeah I think so I
think there's something something was going on I mean I'm just guessing the
other option could be their bots that I've gained 900,000 bucks but it's it's
like every time I look it's like another hundred thousand it's crazy it's it it
grows faster than anything and Instagram is the opposite Instagram seems to
have
hit the brakes on me like some yeah it's somewhere around six months ago
something
happened it seems like it's it's slowed down growth a lot I don't check it too
much so I might be wrong I might be you know I mean maybe that's something they've
done with their algorithm where they prefer videos over photographs now which I
think they do they are they're trying to go more video I believe because that's
where the viral effect really takes place and I see with my kids with tik-tok
you
know one daughter who's a heavy tik-toker oh yeah she's always doing dance
never
been on tik-tok I don't really understand how you're not 14 that's true girls
they get
together and they do dances and they like to like memorize dances and sync it
to
music and and then they're watching all these other people tick-tocking and
doing
all these other and it's like tick-tock just hits you with video after video
after video and they just get you hooked you open that app up and it's like you're
already like oh movement things are happening and this is what they're trying
to do I believe with Instagram I think so too and I did I've read that I don't
get
it because I hate watching videos on Instagram and I hate watching videos on
my phone in general like if I get it because I'm an old person I guess like I'm
like if I want to watch a video I want to look at a big screen like I'll watch
stuff on my laptop but I hate I don't like reading stuff I don't like using my
phone I don't even like texting on my phone to be honest like I text on my
laptop but I mean I sort of think that Instagram messes with me a little bit
too
they refuse to verify my account I've tried like five times how many followers
you have 14,000 no sorry is that right what's the number who cares I don't want
to pretend
like I'm like don't give a shit cuz I do give a shit but not that big of a shit
um is there
a number that you have to reach before they're they'll verify you oh I went up
to 14.3 K today
from two thank you but I I just felt like my my posts were getting less
traction all of a sudden and they were no different than what I'd been posting
before yeah I don't know what that is like that could just be coincidental but
I know some people have
definitely been fucked with and you know there wasn't there a football player
who complained a lot about it Jamie and then eventually he got let out of
Instagram jail why does he need an like he's a football player like what does
he need an Instagram account I need an Instagram account because it's how I
make a living well he does too that's how you get sponsors when you're a
football player you have to get sponsorships you have lots of followers yeah
okay fine fine I'm sorry football player like sports
well you think about it I mean if you have a large following like a Tom Brady I
mean god how many sponsors does he have okay you know I mean that's that's an
amazing way you don't need an Instagram account to throw a ball
you need it for Gatorade and Nike and yeah all the car sponsors and all kinds
of different things when those guys have a large following that's very valuable
which is really an interesting thing it's like what is social media for I mean
are you using it for as a business or using it to be social are you just having
fun and you know expressing
yourself are you using it to maximize your brand air quotes I mean I don't
brand I swear to god I don't I'm obviously a very authentic person I believe I
just I mean I have to use social media for work because I work for myself so it's
the only way I can get what I produce out into the world and it's the that's
how I make an income almost solely through individual donations like so people
who send me donations through
through my website or they sign up to my patreon or they pay for a subscription
on subspdack which I don't I haven't put anything behind a paywall so you can
people can just choose to pay or not so I just appreciate it if people pay
because it's how I make an income but like I don't have I don't there's no
institution
institution there's no pure yeah and but but I also I would not really I don't
think I would have a public Instagram account if I hadn't been but I didn't
start a public Instagram account until I was cooked and kicked off of Twitter
like I have to do that I don't love spending a bunch of time on social media
you did you enjoy Twitter though when yes yeah I'm like I don't know why
everybody complains about Twitter all the time because I really like to try to
get back on because I know some people that were banned before they
they they try to get back on they got back on I I appealed twice since recently
yeah yeah so since Elon Musk announced that he was gonna buy Twitter we'll see
if that actually goes through or not
um they just gave into one of his demands oh did they yeah they just released
they will see if you can find what the article says but essentially he said
unless they give him access to data so he can find out how many of his accounts
are fake right because
his his his take on it was like if you were gonna buy something and you were
buying it under the assumption that okay here it goes Twitter set to turn bot
data over to Musk all right so this says that Twitter's board is reportedly set
to pull it about face offering Elon Musk internal data on hundreds of millions
of tweets as advice for the billionaire to complete his acquisition of the
social media company Twitter set to turn over information to Musk capturing
more than 500 million tweets the device the post came from
and other information about the Washington Post reported Wednesday citing an unnamed
person familiar with the matter such a move would help respond to Musk's
repeated demands for more information about the composition of Twitter's user
base and the extent of its problem with bots Musk has challenged Twitter's
claims that just 5% of its accounts are bots calling the way the company calculates
fake accounts very suspicious in a May tweet so I'm really interested to see
how this plays out because he is
what he would describe what he would describe as a free speech absolutist and I
think that that is something that people are reluctant to to agree is a good
thing because they're worried about the negative aspects of free speech you
know they're worried about assholes and you know and trolls and all that stuff
toughen up man toughen up and I'm not joking yeah
yeah