{"id":1474510,"date":"2022-05-13T14:29:38","date_gmt":"2022-05-13T18:29:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1474510"},"modified":"2022-05-13T14:29:50","modified_gmt":"2022-05-13T18:29:50","slug":"devin-nunes-derides-twitter-as-a-potemkin-village-of-bots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/devin-nunes-derides-twitter-as-a-potemkin-village-of-bots\/","title":{"rendered":"Devin Nunes Derides Twitter As A Potemkin Village Of Bots"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdevin-nunes-derides-twitter-as-a-potemkin-village-of-bots%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1474510&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Former California Republican Congressman Devin Nunes, now an executive behind Truth Social, said any time he spends worried about Twitter \u201cis a waste of time for the company,\u201d describing the blue bird platform as a \u201cghost town.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlaces like Twitter don\u2019t have very many people,\u201d Nunes <a href=\"https:\/\/ricochet.com\/podcast\/federalist-radio-hour\/why-devin-nunes-is-confident-in-truth-social\/\">said<\/a> on The Federalist Radio Hour podcast Thursday. \u201cThere\u2019s just not very many real people if you have bot farms, left-wing bot farms, spam accounts, corporate accounts, and then you have a lot of dead accounts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nunes, who left Congress in January to spearhead former President Donald Trump\u2019s free speech-branded alternative, said Twitter likely always concealed its true number of customers in the U.S. while making <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/2\/11\/22925859\/big-tech-companies-2021-earnings-record-revenue-apple-amazon-alphabet-meta\">comparatively<\/a> little <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/02\/10\/technology\/twitter-earnings-4q-2021.html\">money<\/a> for a major tech giant. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy guess is that whatever your follower amount is, it\u2019s must lower than that. Those people just aren\u2019t on the platform,\u201d Nunes said. On top of shadow banning, Twitter\u2019s influence beyond its activist users is on the decline. <\/p>\n<p>The ex-lawmaker welcomed billionaire Elon Musk\u2019s takeover of Twitter, explaining Truth Social is meant to be a different platform while the competition places pressure on incumbent tech oligarchs to open up the internet. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf more billionaires want to come around and buy up these other companies, we\u2019re all for it,\u201d Nunes said. \u201cBut I just don\u2019t see, you know, any minute that \u2014 despite what the fake news says and the narratives that they\u2019re trying to write \u2014 any minute that I spend worried about Twitter, that\u2019s a ghost town with no people, is a waste of time for the company.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Users on Truth Social, Nunes added, \u201ceven in our nascent stage,\u201d already routinely garnered more engagement than on rival platforms dominated by Silicon Valley. <\/p>\n<p>Musk <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/04\/25\/technology\/musk-twitter-sale.html\">struck a deal<\/a> to purchase Twitter for $44 billion, paying a 38 percent premium above the company\u2019s share price in April. The founder of SpaceX and CEO of Tesla <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1525049369552048129?s=20&#038;t=liV1ZK5fL-NpXy4CRsxekQ\">revealed<\/a> Friday morning the deal was \u201ctemporarily on hold\u201d but <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1525080945274998785?s=20&#038;t=liV1ZK5fL-NpXy4CRsxekQ\">remains<\/a> \u201cstill committed to acquisition\u201d despite the setback.<\/p>\n<p>Musk linked to an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/technology\/twitter-estimates-spam-fake-accounts-represent-less-than-5-users-filing-2022-05-02\/\">article<\/a> from Reuters in the Friday post highlighting that only less than 5 percent of users on the platform were fake or spam accounts. That number, however, doesn\u2019t include inactive accounts. <\/p>\n<p>On Truth Social, Trump called the purchase a \u201cridiculous price\u201d for a platform \u201clargely based on BOTS or Spam Accounts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy the time you get rid of them, if that can even be done, what do you have?\u201d Trump wrote on his own service. \u201cIf it weren\u2019t for the ridiculous Billion Dollar breakup fee, Elon would have already been long gone. Just my opinion, but Truth Social is MUCH better than Twitter and is absolutely exploding, incredible engagement!\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"645\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Trump-Truth-Social-Post-1024x645-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-272466\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Trump-Truth-Social-Post-1024x645-1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Trump-Truth-Social-Post-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Trump-Truth-Social-Post-768x484-1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Trump-Truth-Social-Post.jpg 1123w\" \/><\/figure>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<p>\n  Tristan Justice is the western correspondent for The Federalist. He has also written for The Washington Examiner and The Daily Signal. His work has also been featured in Real Clear Politics and Fox News. Tristan graduated from George Washington University where he majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow him on Twitter at @JusticeTristan or contact him at Tristan@thefederalist.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former California Republican Congressman Devin Nunes, now an executive behind Truth Social, said any time he spends worried about Twitter \u201cis a waste of time for the company,\u201d describing the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1474510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1474510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1474510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1474510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1474510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1474510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1474510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}