That page doesn’t talk about bias thru Bots.
So the self serving "selection bias" argument goes something like this:
The Left says, 'I won't pay for the blue check. Why should I pay Elon-the-fraud any money?' The same Left turns around and says, 'the blue checks are dominated by the Right, so the polls are skewed. So Twitter polls are worthless.'
Twitter polls were always worthless before, due to bots. Now the anti-Musk crowd is worried this new method might actually make it meaningful, and they might get exposed on major social issues. So they are working on several angles to make Twitter irrelevant.
Modus operandi is:
- Musk-the-fraud has made Twitter a place for racists, hate speech, enables violence, anti-Semitic, verification failure.. yada yada
- so I will not pay him any money and give that platform any legitimacy. Also $8 will break my family and make me poor.
- because I am not represented well enough, any polls will be biased.
- because it will be biased, Twitter polls (and as an extension Twitter itself) are irrelevant.
I am not participating because the platform is biased. Because I am not there, the platform is biased.
The polls are pointless. Elon has made up his mind before he posts a poll. If it doesn't go his way he'll make up some excuse. Remember that poll where he was supposed to step down? How's that going?
So basically what do we get for $8 exactly? Polls are worthless. The only thing it verifies is that you've paid them $8 that month.
Seems to me that we're getting to a place where having that blue check is a little embarrassing. I can think of much better ways to flaunt my incredible wealth of $8 a month. I can go nuts at the thrift store. I can buy a mansion in Afghanistan. In 5 years I can probably buy Twitter.
