{"id":245150,"date":"2023-08-21T06:22:31","date_gmt":"2023-08-21T10:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/es\/?p=303606"},"modified":"2025-07-01T18:25:56","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T01:25:56","slug":"we-know-why-elon-musk-doesnt-want-to-kill-the-twitter-bots-he-would-end-up-very-badly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/we-know-why-elon-musk-doesnt-want-to-kill-the-twitter-bots-he-would-end-up-very-badly\/","title":{"rendered":"Unveiling Elon Musk&#8217;s Twitter Bot Strategy: Shielding Himself from Negative Public Perception"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of Elon Musk&#8217;s main priorities for Twitter after his $44 billion deal to acquire the social media company was to take strong actions against the so-called &#8220;bots.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"sc-card-program\">\r\n  <div class=\"sc-card-program__body\">\r\n    <div class=\"sc-card-program__row clearfix\">\r\n      <div class=\"sc-card-program__col-logo\">\r\n        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sc-card-program__img\" alt=\"Twitter\" src=\"https:\/\/images.sftcdn.net\/images\/t_app-icon-s\/p\/dc4321da-9b2e-11e6-b8c8-00163ed833e7\/107793415\/twitter-logo\" width=\"100px\" height=\"100px\">\r\n      <\/div>\r\n      <div class=\"sc-card-program__col-title\">\r\n        <span class=\"sc-card-program__title\">Twitter<\/span>\r\n        <a class=\"sc-card-program__button sc-card-program-internal\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.en.softonic.com\/android\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">DOWNLOAD<\/a>\r\n      <\/div>\r\n      <div class=\"sc-card-program__col-rating\">\r\n        <svg class=\"rating-score__content\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" version=\"1.1\" x=\"0\" y=\"0\" viewbox=\"0 0 50 50\" enable-background=\"new 0 0 50 50\" xml:space=\"preserve\"><path class=\"rating-score__background rating-score--good\" fill=\"none\" stroke-width=\"6\" stroke-miterlimit=\"10\" d=\"M40 40c8.3-8.3 8.3-21.7 0-30s-21.7-8.3-30 0 -8.3 21.7 0 30\"><\/path><path class=\"rating-score__value rating-score__value--0\" fill=\"none\" stroke-width=\"6\" stroke-dashoffset=\"0\" stroke-miterlimit=\"10\" d=\"M40 40c8.3-8.3 8.3-21.7 0-30s-21.7-8.3-30 0 -8.3 21.7 0 30\"><\/path><text class=\"rating-score__number\" content=\"\" text-anchor=\"middle\" transform=\"matrix(1 0 0 1 25 31.0837)\" data-auto=\"app-user-score\"><\/text><\/svg>\r\n      <\/div>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <div class=\"sc-card-program__row\">\r\n      <span class=\"sc-card-program__description\"><\/span>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <div class=\"sc-card-program__row\">\r\n      <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sc-card-program__bigpic\" src=\"\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\">\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <a class=\"sc-card-program__link track-link sc-card-program-internal\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.en.softonic.com\/android\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/a>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>But there&#8217;s a problem with that plan: almost half of Elon Musk&#8217;s followers are bots or inactive accounts<\/strong>. Yes, the account with the most followers on the social media platform X has over 60 million bots among its ranks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Who are Musk&#8217;s followers in relation to the platform? How active are they? How often do they post? Do they consume a lot of content from creators on X? Are they subscribed to Musk&#8217;s subscription plan, X Premium, formerly known as Twitter Blue? Are Musk&#8217;s followers real?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">42% of Elon Musk&#39;s 153M Twitter followers have 0 followers<br><br>Over 62.5M of Elon Musk followers have posted 0 tweets<br><br>(via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mashable?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@mashable<\/a>) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/k5D1X3DbaP\">pic.twitter.com\/k5D1X3DbaP<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Culture Crave ? (@CultureCrave) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CultureCrave\/status\/1693134641543450875?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 20, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A very uncomfortable truth for Elon Musk<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mashable magazine has reviewed the <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/travisbrown\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">new data<\/a> collected by external researcher Travis Brown, who gathered basic information from the accounts of all of Musk&#8217;s over 153 million followers through a meticulous process that adhered to X&#8217;s rate limit parameters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The question for most people is whether Musk&#8217;s followers are fake. And &#8220;inactive&#8221; is the word that best describes what the data reveals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"How Elon Musk bought Twitter\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DLuPRaybBHA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Are Elon Musk&#8217;s followers smoke and mirrors?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Out of the 153,209,283 X accounts following Musk at the time the data was collected, about <strong>42% of Musk&#8217;s followers, or over 65.3 million users, have zero followers on their own accounts<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A little over 72%, or nearly 112 million, of these users following Musk have fewer than 10 followers on their account.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As for content creation on the platform, <strong>62.5 million of Musk&#8217;s followers have zero tweets<\/strong>. This would include users who have deleted all their tweets at the time the data was collected in the past few weeks, as well as accounts that have never tweeted before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Most of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ElonMusk<\/a>\u2019s 153 million followers are reportedly fake. <br><br>42% have 0 followers while 62.5 million have posted 0 tweets. (Via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mashable?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@mashable<\/a>) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YD151Ql27x\">pic.twitter.com\/YD151Ql27x<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Pop Tingz (@ThePopTingz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ThePopTingz\/status\/1693136496046252324?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 20, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>More than 100 million of Musk&#8217;s followers have fewer than 10 tweets posted on their account<\/strong>. Another interesting detail from Musk&#8217;s follower data is when exactly they created their accounts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Elon Musk completed his acquisition of Twitter on October 27, 2022. <strong>Out of all of Musk&#8217;s current followers, over 25 percent, or 38.9 million, were created on that date or <\/strong>after.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And here&#8217;s the brutal truth: the median number of followers for the 153 million accounts following Musk is just one follower. <a href=\"https:\/\/en.softonic.com\/articles\/elon-musk-blocking-x-apple\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The uncomfortable truth about Elon Musk lies in his followers<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"sc-card-program\">\r\n  <div class=\"sc-card-program__body\">\r\n    <div class=\"sc-card-program__row clearfix\">\r\n      <div class=\"sc-card-program__col-logo\">\r\n        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sc-card-program__img\" alt=\"Twitter\" src=\"https:\/\/images.sftcdn.net\/images\/t_app-icon-s\/p\/dc4321da-9b2e-11e6-b8c8-00163ed833e7\/107793415\/twitter-logo\" width=\"100px\" height=\"100px\">\r\n      <\/div>\r\n      <div class=\"sc-card-program__col-title\">\r\n        <span class=\"sc-card-program__title\">Twitter<\/span>\r\n        <a class=\"sc-card-program__button sc-card-program-internal\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.en.softonic.com\/android\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">DOWNLOAD<\/a>\r\n      <\/div>\r\n      <div class=\"sc-card-program__col-rating\">\r\n        <svg class=\"rating-score__content\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" version=\"1.1\" x=\"0\" y=\"0\" viewbox=\"0 0 50 50\" enable-background=\"new 0 0 50 50\" xml:space=\"preserve\"><path class=\"rating-score__background rating-score--good\" fill=\"none\" stroke-width=\"6\" stroke-miterlimit=\"10\" d=\"M40 40c8.3-8.3 8.3-21.7 0-30s-21.7-8.3-30 0 -8.3 21.7 0 30\"><\/path><path class=\"rating-score__value rating-score__value--0\" fill=\"none\" stroke-width=\"6\" stroke-dashoffset=\"0\" stroke-miterlimit=\"10\" d=\"M40 40c8.3-8.3 8.3-21.7 0-30s-21.7-8.3-30 0 -8.3 21.7 0 30\"><\/path><text class=\"rating-score__number\" content=\"\" text-anchor=\"middle\" transform=\"matrix(1 0 0 1 25 31.0837)\" data-auto=\"app-user-score\"><\/text><\/svg>\r\n      <\/div>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <div class=\"sc-card-program__row\">\r\n      <span class=\"sc-card-program__description\"><\/span>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <div class=\"sc-card-program__row\">\r\n      <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sc-card-program__bigpic\" src=\"\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\">\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <a class=\"sc-card-program__link track-link sc-card-program-internal\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.en.softonic.com\/android\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/a>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Some of the links added in the article are part of affiliate campaigns and may represent benefits for Softonic.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CEO of X, the social network known as Twitter, vowed to end bots. 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