From Futurism · Victor Tangermann, Jon Christian · · 50s
Elon Musk's Twitter Engagement Drops After Russian Data Center Strikes
Elon Musk's Twitter engagement plummets as Ukrainian strikes hit Russian data centers.
In brief
Elon Musk's Twitter engagement plummets as Ukrainian strikes hit Russian data centers. Ukrainian strikes on Russian data centers reduced Elon Musk's Twitter engagement from 17,000 to 81,000 daily likes to 11,000 and 8,000. Originally reported by Futurism.
Ukrainian strikes on Russian data centers
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky claimed the strikes on Yandex’s data centers reduced Russian bot activity on social media platforms.
“it suddenly became a little easier to breathe on many social media platforms”
Elon Musk's Twitter engagement drops
Elon Musk’s Twitter posts saw likes plummet from 17,000 to 81,000 daily to 11,000 and 8,000 after the strikes.
“Woah, Elon Musk out here getting less than 5k likes on his tweets after the bot farm got exploded”
Cloudflare reports 99% drop in Yandex traffic
Cloudflare showed Yandex traffic dropped 99 percent following the strikes, though not all traffic was bot behavior.
“Not all of the traffic was "necessarily bot behaviour on social media platforms"”
Zelensky retracts bot activity claim
Zelensky’s office clarified he was talking about social media atmosphere, not a concrete drop in bot activity.
“telling the BBC that he was "talking about the atmosphere on social media"”
The takeaway
Ukrainian strikes on Russian data centers reduced Elon Musk's Twitter engagement from 17,000 to 81,000 daily likes to 11,000 and 8,000.
