Does this seem like a real person to you? Or some LLM? Could Elon be boosting numbers and engagement by using bot accounts, as Ashley Maddison did? But even better, maybe he is creating bots that pretend to be people who were once on twitter and have left?

FYI: You are following a fake account that pretends to be me. @shantelle39729 @DonteJarvi61177 @LorenAdler @george70209387 @ray_mclaug21770 @D_K_M242962 @MichaBeverl @GraceMetoy71410 @VeryShineLuAr @nicke_charl @LucjaCeres @ClareQuiro45366 @aswoboda @Fran4Dunedin @AsaMadden45581

FYI: You are being followed by a fake account that pretends to be me. Fake handle: @paulmromers Tipoff: the "s" at the end @jeannine3161 @ForrestShryock @ChildrenNeedUs_ @Noahpinion @nealkwatra @shlorenzen @DavidNAKinney

FYI: You are being followed by a fake account that pretends to be me. Fake handle: @paulmromers Tipoff: the "s" at the end @coco_dachs @_tryke @Yeeprs1 @mimilewissabin @PTReid684 @Fran4NZ @AleVentu1998 @BenGera9 @kinsako87 @AdamTherneau @russ_conser @aswoboda @FredHeitman

FYI: You are following a fake account that pretends to be me. Fake handle: @paulmromers Tipoff: the "s" at the end @davidpiegaro @gmamlet @Alfonsomonterod @HHIDavidson @oblivious_dude @hayleycbbrown @hpwaltha @wutrain

FYI: You are following a fake account that pretends to be me. Fake handle: @paulmromers Tipoff: the "s" at the end @Yeeprs1 @Fran4NZ @Charles81177138 @AsaMadden45581 @Andi_llb @anchari @DercioDeAssis @Valio_ch @tveitdal @mircea_epure @bse_barcelona @bsm_upf @Dviddles

FYI: You are following a fake account that pretends to be me. Fake handle: @paulmromers Tipoff: the "s" at the end @SEASolicitorCJS @LucjaCeres @Jonthn_Wheatley @FT @TomaszUrbas @shlorenzen @Sderivet @vis.social @ClareQuiro45366 @MerviHangasm @aswoboda @NEOS @dbroockman

Another indication of the sad state of X/Twitter: Someone using the handle @paulmromers (notice the "s" at the end) is pretending to be me, reposting many of my old posts. Don't be fooled. Better yet, don't use X/Twitter. I stopped last year and it's been great.

While I'm here ... There is one important story that I found when I came back after a month: See also: https://t.co/f9FNBeMrtK

Stop doom scrolling on twitter. Read some good news: https://t.co/qzifUeStvP

Winding down twitter, moving to my blog: On Sequoia Capital's fawning portrait of Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF), the collapse of his financial empire (FTX), and the central role the Sequoia portrait assigns to effective altruism (EA) in this saga. EA-FTX-SBF https://t.co/R8rLeeca19

Winding down twitter and moving to my blog: Looting as the Endgame of the Entirely Predictable Crypto Collapse https://t.co/ME3I7un56q

@ram_bala77 @Twitter I’m good. Twitter Verified is a sham. It is in no way a solution to the pervasive identity problems on this and all other digital platforms. I don’t want a check for me. I want someone to come up with a trustworthy solution that is open to every real person.

To everyone who wondered why I never wanted a Blue Check from twitter, is it easier now to understand?

Healthy Davis Together: Creating a Model for Community Control of COVID-19 American Journal of Public Health https://t.co/xbanfgw5aM

Well who'd a thunk: Turns out that frequent testing did in fact reduce deaths from covid: https://t.co/o1fsBMyLDX Revealing, and very damning, article by @vcolliver

Here we go: If Offit truly cares about the cost versus benefit of a vax, why hasn't he done a cost-benefit analysis? Why does a journalist quote him without demanding numbers? Good science relies on quantification, not hunches and hand-wringing. https://t.co/atMZfEyxaS

@zeynep Don't let yourself or those you love be collateral damage from negative-attention-getting behavior. 2/2

I couldn't agree more with @zeynep. I can say it more bluntly: The noise that some well known scientists injected into the public discussion about vaccines killed a lot of people In the US. And is still killing them. 1/2 https://t.co/6tShq9zzKs

The international comparisons suggest something specific to US that affects workers at all ages. It also suggests that employment in the US has been on a downward trend behind ups and downs of recessions and recoveries since late 1990s. 3/n