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Bots were not taken down 😀 Anyway, We should create awareness and advocate to not use of twitter
I thought it was well established that bot traffic declined since the yanked data centre stuff.
Is that not the case?
The bots that were taken down on the "bot traffic" graph are web crawler bots used to index webpages for the yandex search engine. Propaganda "bots" aren't actually labeled as "bot traffic", for obvious reasons.
Why would anyone want to use Twitter still?
This mistifies me also. No one really stands for anything anymore.
I wrote my "independent" government news outlet to say that they should probably distance themselves from fascists.
They wrote back, saying "right now, our mission is to reach as many as possible, and right now X has many of our followers."
Cowards.
It wouldn't cost them a lot to diversify and be present on more platforms to transition away, cowards indeed.
Unfortunately, with a widespread reach it's a platform bigger than Bluesky or Mastodon; the EFF made itself Bluesky-exclusive, but some news outlets like Al-Jazeera still maintains a presence and is free to criticize Israeli actions.
Cloudfare data
https://radar.cloudflare.com/bots/as13238?dateRange=7d
Yandex is a search engine, it has legitimate crawler bots. So this statistic is not really beneficial to the conversation.
Also, most likely propaganda bots would be under the radar and not self-declaring as bots.
Or they're self-declaring as crawler bots for a search engine company.
Unlikely. The "bot" traffic that cloudflare here identifies, is traffic according to the useragent, that is not an actual user + heuristics cloudflare uses to identify bot devices.
Since ruski propaganda bots would want to act as legitimate users, spreading LLM and/or organically generated word soup, and/or pumping views. They not only have to not be identified as bots, but also to act well enough as a user no captcha and/or cloudflare bot identification catches them.
Might interest you: https://lemmy.world/post/53107580/26329832
See Yandex strikes