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This was not an inauthentic account pretending to be a real person, which is the type of bot you want purged, it was a properly registered account using the Twitter API in a way that said it was a bot.[0] So it makes no sense for it to have been caught up in an anti-bot purge.

[0] https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/tutorials/how-to-creat...

Welp, first person to reply gets to name the charity I donate £20 to.

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Fuck up seems more likely than conspiracy. It'll be interesting to see if Elon brings it back though, at the end of the day he's already getting booed in public, at this point he bought the company he might as well get something out of it. No one in the demographic he's appealing to will hold it against him.

A conspiracy involves several people doing things in secret. A direct order from a megalomaniac that results in something very public doesn't fit that definition.