Musk Proposes to Buy Twitter for Original Price of $54.20 a Share

Vorastra

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Emjay said:
Off topic, but I am surprised at how much his following has grown. I got irritated with him and unfollowed him. His constant talk about "civil war" put me off.
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People make fun of him for that now.
 
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quovadis said:
So the bot problem is an individual experience issue? I thought the problem is not just about just you but the 395 million unpaid users who are influenced by said bots for whatever purpose. Also, the assumption that a credit card is a barrier to a checkmark isn't much of a barrier for these operators.
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What are bots, their purpose and who creates them?
 
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Pegasus said:
What are bots, their purpose and who creates them?
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Well the problematic ones are :

Simply automomous systems which respond or interact with particular content to distribute spam or sway opinion when certain subjects, keywords, interactions or sentiment is observed as part of an automated process. The good ones are typically indistinguishable from regular users and are created
to mimic the average user by mimicking initial behavior including generic poss, following others etc all via typical user interfaces.

A regular bot is basically a similar system but without nefarious activity and usually by official interfaces for such interaction.
 
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quovadis said:
Well the problematic ones are :

Simply automomous systems which respond or interact with particular content to distribute spam or sway opinion when certain subjects, keywords, interactions or sentiment is observed as part of an automated process. The good ones are typically indistinguishable from regular users and are created
to mimic the average user by mimicking initial behavior including generic poss, following others etc all via typical user interfaces.

A regular bot is basically a similar system but without nefarious activity and usually by official interfaces for such interaction.
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Hmmm, I'm yet to be convinced that these spam bots will pass the Turing test.
 
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Gnarls said:
And you're not privy to why they chose that platform. Sure, you may see the ad spends but you are not privy to their results whatever that may be - which invalidates your generalisation that advertisers only care about cpa.

lol
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I never said I was privy as to why they chose a plaform. My comment was regarding choosing an alternate platform to redirect that spend to and that is quite easy to determine purely on their own past metrics together with any metrics compiled by their agency. I've discussed CPA ad nauseum now but if you have Platform A providing a CPA of $50 vs platform B of $25 you're getting a better return for your ad spend on platform B. Impressions and Clicks are more susceptible to manipulation and thus actual revenue paying customers are a better metric.
 
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