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Has Twitter (now X) become more right-wing?

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7 pointsjdkee14 comments

Off-topic but if every reference to your new brand has to include the old brand, you probably shouldn't have rebranded

Also, telling your biggest source of revenue to "Fuck Off" and that hope they stop advertising is probably not a good idea either.

Especially since the change was more than a year ago. I'm sure everyone still uses the twitter domain as well. And it's clear that people are still using the word 'tweets' (although xeets and xcreets are more appropriate for meeting the new name)

https://archive.is/K58Zz

Despite the changes, the site still leans heavily Democratic. The party’s senators have 50% more followers than their Republican counterparts (though that is well below the 85% lead they had in October 2022.)

But these may be bot followers. In terms of actual human engagement, I see a definite right-wing bias. It seems like the stuff that goes viral and is algothrimically- recommended on Twitter leans right or center-right.

is it really fair to make judgements based on what “you see”? you must be seeing well under 1% of twitter traffic, no?

but isn't the whole article just a giant hunch anyway? its methodology of looking at follower counts is flawed to begin with due to bots

> In terms of actual human engagement, I see a definite right-wing bias.

That may be partially due to the promotion of the blueticks, who seem to be predominantly, well, either crypto scammers or weird Musk fans.

Couldn't the "actual human engagement" also be bots? Or at least troll farms?

Inconceivable. Elon bought Twitter to take care of the bots.

The people buying blue checks are mostly more right wing, so the tweets you are likely to see are definitely more right wing

More right wing or not, The Algorithm certainly puts a whole lot more ads on your timeline, and scammy ads at that.

Less censorship by the left/MSM/Biden admin.. I don't know how that is right wing. The twitter files proved this was a fact.

How could anyone tell, objectively without being under an NDA to X, because the api access to information is neither cheap nor ubiquitous.

Sampling error is huge in this.

Surveys of newspaper editorial policy are notoriously subjective, the Glasgow media group got pasted for an overt Marxist analysis during the thatcher years, ignoring what ground truths it exposed because of perceptions of bias in their intent and they were quite rigorous and peer reviewed.

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