Bots

 

Elon Musk has torn the bandage off the gaping wound of social media — the artificial inflation of their active user statistics through the use of bots (short for “robots” … computers pretending to be active users by logging onto web sites). Since advertisers pay based on the number of active users, these social media giants may well be padding their profits with such subterfuge … shameful.

I myself have noticed occasional spikes in readership of this blog … which is managed by Blogspot, a subsidiary of Google (Alphabet). These bots … be they internal (or even Russian), would triple or quadruple the daily hits overall … but, interestingly, not show up on individual post numbers.

Pilgrim, since I don’t carry ads on this blog, these shenanigans benefitted neither Alphabet nor myself. So, to me, it’s mox nix.

What was Google’s original motto, “Dot be evil?” It has since changed it …

STAND UP FOR CORPORATE HONESTY!