Yeah I think people* will come to understand that not all images are real, just like they came to understand the not all headlines are real

*some people

This doesn’t feel like astroturfing to me, one is purely negative, one is about a merger and I would consider neutral, and the other 3 are about a massive game coming to the biggest platform, something PC gamers have been begging for forever

Is it? This seems like one of the most beneficial and least controversial uses

Honestly surprised it’s lasted as long as it has

I think it used to say on people’s profiles something like “This user’s gold has paid for x hours of server time”

That’s what Bard does

The content is very generic, a lot of people trying to subtly beg for followers, but the worst part is there is no following feed at all, just one (poorly so far) curated page.

I can’t even think of a financial or business reason for him to do this that makes sense, he must just want to run Twitter into the ground