All blue check marks. Anyone who's actually paid for verification on Twitter is most likely a bot completely reversing it's point. Someone without a check mark is more likely to be a real person.
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Actually, it is 100% certain that anyone posting on Twitter is either a bot or a troll. Once you realize that, it's easy to completely walk away from Twitter.
Looks like we need to pressure more off.
That's how you do it... any time someone references twitter let them know that you don't consider that a reputable source since it is all trolls and bots.
I wish Zelensky wasn’t on Twitter so much :/
No, there still are real people on twitter, unfortunately, particularly elites and journalists who were the main reason why twitter ever mattered. Anyone else though can safely assumed to be bots if they have a blue check mark.
If they don't have a blue check mark then they don't have paid api access, meaning their either an extremely advanced bot system that can circumvent twitters bot prevention, or they're a real person.
If I had a dollar for every Republican claiming they were a Democrat until The Democrats Went Too Far, I'd have about $70M
r/conservative has a post everyday how "The woke left has finally pushed me away!" and it's just somebody describing how they were always conservative from the getgo
Meta - it's sort of cynically amusing that, as a generalization, the right has tended to lag behind in taking advantage of modern communication tools that generally presume a good faith effort at telling the truth - like Wikipedia - but have so easily leapt to the forefront of the newest dynamic in online communication - lying with AI.
"Yeah i voted harris, but the way that nazis throat exploded was a thing of beauty. I want that for myself, too."
I’ve been a Democratic voter my whole life, but when I heard Charlie Kirk talk about how black people are naturally stupid and violent and taking white mens jobs, and how queer people should be stoned to death, and how Biden should be executed for reasons, I decided to register Republican.
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Because doing so buys me time to escape this place before they come for me.
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Just like the hate religion that kirk represented, they need to lie and distort reality to gain members. Just giving people their history and current goals only appeals to insane people. They have to lie. They must lie to survive.
Don't believe the "were against hate, we're all peace, love, and a fictional jebus!" That's the lie that funds their hate. Stop following and funding hate religions.
Down with religion!
I mean, this is the same tactic that got Charlie Kirk and TPUSA popular in the first place. None of that shit was organic.
That seems to be happening on reddit too
The more I've seen about Charlie Kirk, after his death, the more I dislike him. (Also a Democratic voter).
Dang – we should probably all talk about that guy instead of the Epstein files
DAE WE SHOULD HAVE A DAY OF SAD SAD FOR CHARLIE BECAUSE HE WAS A MAN OF HONOUR!!ONEELEVEN11!
Are you sure @HARDforTRUMP and @stopRINOkemp aren't real democrats?
...why? Do they think this will help them somehow? What could it possibly do, convert the last remaining non-right wingers left on Twitter?
It's to make already right wing people more emboldened. If they think everyone agrees with them, they'll be more outward about their hate
Look up False Consensus Bias. Humans naturally assume they're in the majority, this just adds a layer of confirmation bias to that mix, lol.
The masses are very sheepish. Read enough of your fellow party ilk has gone a different way, then you start to question it.
Also, easy AI campaign to spin up GOP base. Then they can report "Dems changing their mind about Charlie Kirk" here is our Twitter/X proof
Lying works too often.
most accounts on twitter and other social media are bots and ads. reminds me of dead internet theory
And real humans posting in bad faith. The internet effectively died when the rot of bad faith right wing posters had metastasized.
Reading Twitter is a bit tiring. I block like a hundred blue checkmarks every time. There used to be a firefox extensions that does this automatically, but unfortunately it doesn't seem to work anymore.
I mean...who the hell uses xitter anyway?
Sir, the restrooms are for paying customers only.
That whole place is a toilet.
The most disgusting toilet in all of Scotland.
Xitter: hold my shit.