Hello, all around the world Musk is considered the real winner of the US elections. He used X to influence the elections, they say.

I can confirm that X’s algorithm pushed the Musk messages so hard that it become irritating, but just before Musk started his “pro-Trump campaign” all the media, and most of the people, reported X as a “dead” social network. Before Musks acquisition, Twitter was mostly considered a small social. After Musk acquisition, a lot of the users left it, and when he started to do pro-Trump messages more people left it.

As I don’t live in the US my question is: do you think that X, which was considered pretty irrelevant before the elections, really changed the elections result? Or Trump would have won in any case? I don’t think some post on a small social can make such a difference, or at least I hope they cannot.

  • kerbitsOP
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    1 month ago

    Thanks for your opinion, I agree with you. For sure it had an important impact on the media, but IMO the multi-million donations to Trump’s campaign had a bigger impact. As you said, Twitter is now mostly used by right-wing people and I think they would have probably voted Trump anyway.

    I’m still using X, but if you don’t pay it’s now a read-only social network. You can write, but you will get almost zero visuals…