A Little More Xcrement

Here’s another insight into the way Xcrement works – to prevent those who do not pay for “free” speech (or whose speech isn’t liked) from ever acquiring any “reach.”

Take a look at the screenshot accompanying this article. You will see that – as of the other day – I have 177 followers on Xcrement. What’s interesting about that is I have had roughly the same number of followers for at least a year now. It will go up to perhaps 178. But then it goes back down to 175. It never goes above 178. Not for long, at any rate. Almost as soon as it upticks a a little, it wanes a little – and ends up back where it was.

Now, before you say people just aren’t wanting to follow me, consider the second screenshot:

You will note the numbers. The last couple of articles – links to the articles I posted on Xcrement – have double digit and even triple digit viewership numbers. I am regularly a guest on podcasts and radio shows that reach thousands, even tens of thousands. On every podcast I do, the host mentions my Xcrement account and requests that listeners Follow me. This is something that’s been happening for years.

Yet I have never been able to get more than 177 followers on Xcrement. Why is that? Is it credible that of the hundreds/thousands of people who see the things I post on X never more than two or three decide to Follow me? That, irrespective of the thousands/tens of thousands that hear the regular weekly radio shows and podcasts I have been doing for years, never more than 178 people ever Follow me on Xcrement?

I have noticed something else as well about Xcrement’s operation. As I have already mentioned in prior columns on this subject, I stopped doing anything more on X than posting links to my latest articles each morning a couple of months ago – because I’d gotten tired of playing Charlie trying to kick the football that Lucy always pulls away. Well, after I stopped doing more than just that, I stopped getting private messages from porn Bots as well as messages generally – which is suggestive to me as regards the latter because there is no question many of the links I post are being viewed by double and even triple digits yet I get almost no replies. Except every so often when all of a sudden I get several. That inconsistent pattern is incongruous given I am extremely consistent – in that I always post a couple new links to new articles every day.

It defies logic that responses to the regular – daily – posts are so erratic. I think Xcrement dangles the occasional bait of responses in the hope that people will take it – and engage more with the Bots on Xcrement, spend hours doomscrolling through the narrative propaganda and maybe even pay for “reach.”

But when you don’t play with the Bots, the Bots don’t talk back.

I offer all this up to make the case that Xcrement is the new Facebook – in the sense that both are to free speech what salt is to a snail. Both of them are – at the very least – data mining operations that are very much like the East German Stasi but with the interesting twist that Xcrement and Facebook are self-spying operations. People willingly – eagerly – provide their information to what they think are merely “social media” platforms that are collecting and analyzing the information people freely provide that is being used to monetize them and that will be used for worse than that when the time comes.

Here’s a good moment to mention something peripherally relevant about Xcrement. More finely, about its owner. The guy who was running DOGE – the Department of Government Efficiency. Remember DOGE? Remember what people were sold? Many bought into the scam that government was going to be made more “efficient.” There was a lot of hootin’ and hollerin’ at the sight  – in those first few weeks – of what looked like government bureaucrats walking out of bureaucracies such as USAID. It looked like government was becoming more “efficient.” Never mind that what most of the people who voted for Trump voted for was to make government less expensive and intrusive.

Not more “efficient.” The trains running to the East during the late unpleasantness in Eastern Europe were also very “efficient.”

Anyhow, DOGE is a dead duck. It no longer exists as an operative apparatus. Its “charter” has expired – and it has very quietly faded away, kind of like Trump clearly hoped the Epstein Matter would.

Bait meet switch – again.

Xcrement works on the same principle. People were baited into believing that – when Elon bought what used to be Twitter and renamed it X – it was a place where people could speak freely. Except it wasn’t.

Except it isn’t.

Like everything else Musk touches, it’s a grift. Elon is said to be a very clever man and he obviously is. I wonder how long it will be before more people understand this.

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