Sorry to talk about #Twitter and #Musk but, something doesn't sit right about one of latest tweets (ignoring the gross ones).

He stated his tweet has the highest view count of over 500million.

But;

- Twitter now blocks non logged in users
- Last user count estimate was around 368 million?

That Twitter view count is total bull isn't it?

#tech #code #news #mastodon

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@hazz223 In theory, he could just go into the database, change the number of a view column to 500,000,000, and it would have a view count of over 500 million

The implementation might be a bit different than that, although same in principle.

@hazz223 To be honest, I've always suspected view counts were inflated, maybe not even intentionally.

And if you view something twice (or it gets inserted into your feed twice...), it probably counts that twice.

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