Majority of Twitter traffic during the Super Bowl was faked

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Majority of Twitter traffic during the Super Bowl was faked

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The majority of traffic from Elon Musk's X may have been fake during the Super Bowl, report suggests

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These numbers are legitimately shocking.

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I saw a comparison to last year’s superbowl (a few months after musk bought it) at ~3% bot traffic.

Bot percentages for this past month (January) were ~30%

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