MortWellian OP t1_j1akjiy wrote
Archive here. Seriously, don't trust online polls.
> With less than $100, one can buy tens of thousands of votes for Twitter polls using bot-for-hire manipulation services, according to the nonprofit digital rights group Accountable Tech. The finding, first reported by Bloomberg, could spark new concerns about Musk’s reliance on the tool to chart the future of one of the world’s most influential social media companies.
Edit: Should note that this new research is after Elmo said he had cleaned up the bot problem, something that was already hard to believe with all the firings.
distantapplause t1_j1bbnms wrote
Who was 'trusting' Twitter polls anyway? Anyone who knows literally the first thing about survey methodology knows that 'my followers on Twitter' is only a representative sample of my followers on Twitter and nothing more.
MortWellian OP t1_j1bcnv2 wrote
A lot of his fan boys, and tbh I kind of think he drank his own koolaid with his love of polls.
Very true, that he's now going with "only blues" voting he's just reinforcing the echo chamber of his threads.
Brothernod t1_j1bpayp wrote
For all we know he’s leaning on the polls with his own bots.
MortWellian OP t1_j1btzlb wrote
Maybe? I'm just guessing by the leave/go post that he has little to know control on how polls break with getting spanked hard. Also not sure how well bots scale to the numbers that took that poll, how many would he have to use to keep it to a 15% loss?
I keep coming to things like his interpretation of Freedom of Speech and the reporters are still being blocked from posting. The man has his blindspots and I think he was honestly shook by the outcome rather than his bot army was that overwhelmed.
Brothernod t1_j1bulge wrote
I don’t know, and this is all pure conjecture, but I found the difference between the reinstate trump poll and the new ceo poll to be interesting.
Coupled with the rumors of him getting spanked by his Saudi Investors at the World Cup just a day before the poll, it felt like he had to go and was just trying to save face.
He played the exact same game when he did a poll about selling stock and paying taxes on it a couple years ago when he was really just trying to prevent a sell off while he cashed out.
MortWellian OP t1_j1bx5rh wrote
He did say in Nov (iirc) publicly he was planning the hand off, I thought he was going that route myself, but this report reminded me that after going quiet he said “maybe we might still have an itsy bitsy bot problem on Twitter.”, I'm just not getting it was a war of bot armies, but pure wild ass guessing on my part as well.
GibbonFit t1_j1c3ejd wrote
Dude, you can totally trust online polls aren't being manipulated. Pepsi was clearly in the wrong for refusing to name the new flavor of Mountain Dew "Hitler did nothing wrong." Does anyone actually believe that online polls are manipulated? Smh.
shawnp84 t1_j1c8ca1 wrote
I honestly think Elon did! I thought he would just laugh off not winning the poll about him resigning, but he just went silent for hours before throwing out reasons why the results were invalid. lol
How can someone this rich be so insecure?!
nzodd t1_j1c9pqp wrote
Honestly you have to be severely mentally ill to amass that much money in the first place, willing to lie, cheat and trample all over other people, sun up to sun down, solely for your own personal gain without shame or remorse. Dark triad personality disorders are rife in upper management. His father was an apartheid-era gem mine owner for Christ's sake, this is who these people are.
CatProgrammer t1_j1d0j8x wrote
Most rich people are at least cognizant enough to not act like dumbasses in public. Or if they do to not do it in a way that's easily documented, or to have PR people to smooth things over, or to do all sorts of other things that Musk is not doing.
darkingz t1_j1c2g4n wrote
I didn’t even know Elon was even doing polls at the beginning and only started hearing about them when they started to get more unhinged after the trump one. So, that plus the short voting time is even clearer he means to sample only when he’d think he’d get the best response.
GreatFairyDavi t1_j1dhe9c wrote
I take polls for my business and that’s what I try to explain the other day to a friend that I am only receiving about 30% of voting from people paying for the service and stuff and that it’s hard to trust polls because it’s such a fragment of info
this_1_is_mine t1_j1c32fw wrote
*elmu
Even Elmo would not be around this clown.
MortWellian OP t1_j1c49ap wrote
I don't know why that nickname appeals to me, think it's mostly a knock that he shouldn't be taken nearly as seriously as he thinks he should be.
Maleficent_Moose_802 t1_j1einmt wrote
Actually, you shouldn’t trust anything online. Polls or political / scientific comments or news. You may even assume I am a bot, or a dog.
Timlang60 t1_j1ezpor wrote
To be fair, that was a mistake anyone of his intelligence level could make. It was fair for him to assume that the people in the Bot Control department were controlling the bots. Simple misunderstanding, could happen to anyone. /s
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