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So Elon's a "visionary" who wants to turn X into a single website where you can do everything — kinda like Yahoo! (aus.social)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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So Elon's a "visionary" who wants to turn X into a single website where you can do everything — kinda like Yahoo!

He wants his new MySpaceX portal to be a website...

Where you can message people: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Messenger

Where you can stream audio: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadcast.com

Where you can stream videos: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Screen

Where you can create social media posts: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_360%C2%B0

Where you can manage your finances: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Finance

Where you can share photos: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Photos

Where you can earn money publishing content: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Publisher_Network

Where you can find a job: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_HotJobs

Where you can buy and sell stuff: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Auctions

Yes, ladies and gentlemen, this truly is a vision for the future — if by "the future" you mean 1997.

#tech #technology #twitter #X #musk #ElonMusk @technology #yahoo

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Meanwhile, TikTok has added text posts. For 1 billion monthly active users.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Whoa, I didn't know tiktok was so popular. it's like 1/8 of the entire world population, and considering that only about 70% of the world has internet access, it's like 18% of all internet users.

Or are lots of these bot accounts, like other social media, and the real numbers are lower?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Pretty much the entire Pacific rim, so it makes sense... but here's one analysis on bots:

https://www.fraud0.com/resources/tiktok-bots-fake-accounts-scam/

"Initial analysis from us shows a clear picture: up to 97% of all traffic coming through TikTok could be detected as automated bot requests by our software. These are frightening figures that cost many advertising companies a lot of money and waste their ad spend."

Also:

"In 2022 alone, TikTok removed:

Over 256 million accounts (including accounts suspected to be under the age of 13 and fake accounts – 282% increase vs. 2021)

Almost 160 million fake accounts (increase of over 1,200% (!) compared to 2021)

These numbers are only a fraction compared to Facebook’s total of over 6.5 billion fake accounts removed in 2021."