Twitter offers accounts, you sign up with your name or a fake name, you start to tweet and keep it going by logging in and tweeting.
Some (bots?) sign up with a name, they never tweet and never log in again (!) for years.
The sum of all those dead accounts, 'dead' usernames, is approx. 1.5 billion and will be deleted (like luggage in the lost-and-founds which was never claimed), therefore those names will be freed and available again. = Name space
Probably a lot of these 1.5 billion names are bots, artificial accounts, only used to enlarge the follower numbers of special people and simulate significance where it is only a big lie.
Very probably the numbers of some important accounts (think senile residents) will drop into the basement where it all started. :-)
I wonder how this will play out in terms of lawsuits. You have the Reeeee crowd running around sneering that Musk is losing advertisers and revenue. However, Twitter was selling ad space based on 'look at the reach you'll have because our platform is so popular!' Basically fraud. (How much money was the C-suite making again?)
Not that I am expecting the SEC to do anything but if this had ever been a legit business, they should.
You don't need the SEC to do something about it. You can claim fraud and sue them directly if you are an advertiser. But you need something substantive to survive pre-trial motions. You can't just claim they lied. Elon needs to drop those receipts. Then it will be open season.
I've had a twitter account for over a decade and have never tweeted. I follow a few accounts for things like alternate side parking notifications, weather warnings, and a few others for various product or event announcements. Seems lame that I will now have to tweet at some unspecified interval in order to keep my account alive.
Mmmm….if you have log-in activity you are probably OK. I dont know that for sure, but if I was on the purge team, I would make sure we didnt purge folks like you, of which Im certain there are millions. Elon wont let that happen.
Well one of them was mine. I lost my acct info right after I opened it. So I could never get in to use it. And now I've received an email saying it was suspended lol
That won't work. I suspect when we read that "115% of population voted in XYZ county" (I can't remember the post but it was on this board), I assume that every one of these 'dead' registrations have been used within the last 2 1/2 years. The 'inactive' list would be minute in these Dem counties.
I know, he said there was amnesty coming for those banned for fake reasons... my account went from 'permanently suspended' to back for about 30 min before being locked out again.
My account is still suspended. What happened to amnesty? Why do I think my account will be lumped into this group of 1.5B and deleted? Why are so many people gargling this guy's nuts?
My Twitter account is probably one of those. I created it years ago but rarely used it. Bots somehow took it over and Twitter wouldn't let me recover my access.
I know he's gone nutso, but I really hope he unbans Milo's original twitter account. He burned liberals for YEARS with that thing, and just having the old tweets will be nice to see.
ONLY 1.5 billion. Keep exposing this Elon. We knew it was bad but WOW this is distortion of numbers on steroids.
We have to keep an eye on famous accounts and how they will perform the next days: Keep your Screen-Shot pistols ready and loaded!
And archive Tweets at both https://archive.today and https://archive.org
Barak Obama has 133 million twitter followers.
Will he drop below Elon's 120 million?
Below 50 I bet
yes and the best is yet to come :-)
I have no idea what this means exactly. Layman term?
Twitter offers accounts, you sign up with your name or a fake name, you start to tweet and keep it going by logging in and tweeting.
Some (bots?) sign up with a name, they never tweet and never log in again (!) for years.
The sum of all those dead accounts, 'dead' usernames, is approx. 1.5 billion and will be deleted (like luggage in the lost-and-founds which was never claimed), therefore those names will be freed and available again. = Name space
Probably a lot of these 1.5 billion names are bots, artificial accounts, only used to enlarge the follower numbers of special people and simulate significance where it is only a big lie.
Very probably the numbers of some important accounts (think senile residents) will drop into the basement where it all started. :-)
I wonder how this will play out in terms of lawsuits. You have the Reeeee crowd running around sneering that Musk is losing advertisers and revenue. However, Twitter was selling ad space based on 'look at the reach you'll have because our platform is so popular!' Basically fraud. (How much money was the C-suite making again?)
Not that I am expecting the SEC to do anything but if this had ever been a legit business, they should.
^^^ DING DING DING DING ^^^
You don't need the SEC to do something about it. You can claim fraud and sue them directly if you are an advertiser. But you need something substantive to survive pre-trial motions. You can't just claim they lied. Elon needs to drop those receipts. Then it will be open season.
I've had a twitter account for over a decade and have never tweeted. I follow a few accounts for things like alternate side parking notifications, weather warnings, and a few others for various product or event announcements. Seems lame that I will now have to tweet at some unspecified interval in order to keep my account alive.
Mmmm….if you have log-in activity you are probably OK. I dont know that for sure, but if I was on the purge team, I would make sure we didnt purge folks like you, of which Im certain there are millions. Elon wont let that happen.
Make a Tweet.
First, THANK YOU. I was a little confused too.
Second … HOLY SHIT!!! 1.5 BILLION!!!
🤯
Now I understand what name space is.
I think it should drop followers on some VIP accounts. Powerful people were able to buy followers in order to look and become powerful.
Name space? Does that mean maybe the name you wanted was being used by a bot? Now will be available again?
That’s what I was wondering. I just signed up the other day and the name I wanted was taken. There is still hope?
Possibly. I tried to but imadick was taken🙂
BigMikesBigDick
MikeMikeMike might work.
There's probably a waiting list for "Big Mike." :)
How about imabigdick?
Taken🤣 I'll try igotsabigdick
Don’t be spreading lies, now. kek
1.5 Billion!? Wow.
Well one of them was mine. I lost my acct info right after I opened it. So I could never get in to use it. And now I've received an email saying it was suspended lol
You are a bot! :-)
Billion with a B?
Astonishing.
Now do voter rolls.
That won't work. I suspect when we read that "115% of population voted in XYZ county" (I can't remember the post but it was on this board), I assume that every one of these 'dead' registrations have been used within the last 2 1/2 years. The 'inactive' list would be minute in these Dem counties.
Now when will he be unsuspending us?
I know, he said there was amnesty coming for those banned for fake reasons... my account went from 'permanently suspended' to back for about 30 min before being locked out again.
These aren't bots. Abandoned accounts. No tweets or logins
There goes all of Bidens followers on Twitter. I'd be curious the before/after count for him, also AOC.
I will miss that Chinese girl whose dozens of accounts follow me.
Yes, I will lose at least 15 followers. I'm that important. LOL
She's only followed you 15 times? Man, you've gotta up your game.
My account is still suspended. What happened to amnesty? Why do I think my account will be lumped into this group of 1.5B and deleted? Why are so many people gargling this guy's nuts?
Kind of scary. I keep appealing my suspension. My profile is still there but my 8k followers are gone. So then no chance to win my appeal.
I tweeted once about six years ago, but none since. I guess I should go back and tweet again.
Oh nyo!
I wish someone would buy 4chan from ChinkMoot and clean out the bots, shills and trolls from there.
1.5 billion seems excessive, but one of those accounts is mine.
My Twitter account is probably one of those. I created it years ago but rarely used it. Bots somehow took it over and Twitter wouldn't let me recover my access.
Over here waiting..... been locked up since Jan 6th.
I wonder how many accounts are cross reference to Google asking for Fb and Twitter info for rewards for Google play games?
I know he's gone nutso, but I really hope he unbans Milo's original twitter account. He burned liberals for YEARS with that thing, and just having the old tweets will be nice to see.