It doesn't need too much intelligence to figure out polls on Twitter are all rigged.
In case some don't know it already, there are millions of Twitter-bot accounts dedicated to spam certain messages. Thousands of internet users get paid (or think they will) if they signup for the so-called PTC (Paid To Click) and proceed with liking and following comments on social media.
Twitter is not a transparent network and has no legitimate use case to run polls. There is no validity even for the entity that runs a poll to verify the legitimacy of votes. And frankly, when this has to do with comparing communities (as with the case of Litecoin and Bitcoin Cash) it is always going to be rigged.
Twitter is a flawed concept on its own, censoring opinions and blocking accounts just because they don’t fit some kind of narrative it has. But this is another issue. The part here is the nonsense voting polls between Litecoin and Bitcoin Cash that were completely manipulated and far too many took them seriously.
I voted too, although I knew the outcome beforehand since there wasn’t going to be any genuine voting. Bots and spammers voted for Litecoin. This is what happened.
The REAL Stats are: BCH 85% - LTC 15%
First of all the results:
Source: Twitter
(I remember voting in this and had a ticker next to Bitcoin Cash, it seems this ticker is gone now. Is it gone for everyone else?)
(Bitplaza also seems it follows me. Not going to support it though, unless it adds Bitcoin Cash.)
3931 voted, and that tweet had a mere 376 likes, and 273 retweets (in total).
1147 votes were for Bitcoin Cash and
2783 votes went for Litecoin.
The Litecoin votes were seriously manipulated.
Most of those who voted for Litecoin are accounts that never post on Twitter but only use it for “earning” purposes (bounty payment or PTC).
And these are approximately 2500 fake bot-votes that went for Litecoin.
Sadly, this is something we can’t prove. But since this is about voting, Twitter has no organized approach to counter vote-manipulation. And what proves this is the comments in the same Tweet poll, where just about 20 comments sympathetic to Litecoin were published.
We don’t know all that voted since this is not a transparent vote. Anyone with 10 accounts can vote 10 times. But this is not the case, this is a case of 2500 bot votes upvoting Litecoin.
What would have happened if Bitcoin Cash was reaching closer, was another 2-3 thousand Litecoin votes would suddenly appear in just minutes. The same happened with plenty of other fake Twitter polls. Someone buys and if they see their vote is about to fail, they then buy more. There is nothing organic there.
This poll had, from the beginning, almost 2000 votes for Litecoin. It is a rigged poll just like 90% of Twitter is. Fake and inorganic followers, comments, and likes.
Source: Twitter
I wrote this at the start of the poll, Litecoin already had about a thousand votes more. If you look at the comments it is obvious that BCH won this poll. The comments favoring Litecoin were just a few, while BCH had overwhelming support. Meanwhile, even Nano and Dash supporters were spamming the poll and their comments were more than Litecoin's.
A total fake and rigged poll that does not represent any popular opinion.
Bitplaza did this for publicity reasons but should have canceled this parody and just select it according to comments. BCH had real people voting once, Litecoin had a few dozens of real votes and the rest were bot accounts and paid PTC noobs that have not even heard what Litecoin was.
Source: Twitter
The above is not proof, but something worth considering, since $1 million can buy millions of fake likes, followers, retweets, and shills for months. And of course rig and manipulate any kind of voting polls.
The REAL Stats are: BCH 85% - LTC 15%
So, by now you are wondering where I came up with the 85% BCH - 15% LTC stats.
The proof is the fact that that Bistroo adopted both Bitcoin Cash and Litecoin for payments, but the Litecoin Community didn't seem to care about it. There weren't hundreds of likes on this "good news" as anyone would be expecting. However, the Bitcoin Cash community embraced this good news with an organic number of likes.
This is the real poll:
Source: Twitter
Source: Twitter
Both Litecoin and Bitcoin Cash were announced by Bistroo with one day difference. There was no fake poll and no fake popularity contest. What happened was what every sane person would have expected.
Both screenshots are taken at the exact same time.
This is the real poll between Litecoin and Bitcoin Cash.
168 likes for Bitcoin Cash - Just 28 likes for Litecoin
The community that matters most is undeniably Bitcoin Cash.
85% of total likes went for Bitcoin Cash and a mere 15% liked Litecoin.
Let me repeat and let that sink in.
85% were the Bitcoin Cash votes
15% were the Litcoin votes.
Some suggested that Bitcoin Cash haters (including BTC maximalists) upvoted Litecoin in the Bitplaza poll. This is not what happened, though.
The outrageous manipulation in the Twitter poll conducted by Bitplaza was a result of inorganic votes. It wasn't real Twitter users, but someone utilizing (probably paying for) an army of thousands of multiple accounts.
A week later the reality of the difference between the two communities is clear.
There was another poll before this one, by Bitplaza again, that Dogecoin won hands down. I'm not referring to that one, though.
Dogecoin has amassed various sheep Robinhood investors that never used or will never use cryptocurrency in their lives. It barely ever had a community and what is now considered a Doge community is just a meme by itself.
This is just Musk and his abuse of influencing power that "pumps" the price acting like a paid shill, while at the same time damaging his image. Eventually, Doge will have no future and whatever price it achieves will only be met with a 99% downfall when trouble in the market begins.
Source: Twitter
So much for a thrill.
The REAL Stats are: BCH 85% - LTC 15%
Source: Unsplash
Anyone still thinking these polls matter and hold any trace of legitimacy? It is all fake just as Twitter is.
The numbers could have changed, and the vote on Litecoin would still suddenly receive another 5k votes.
The guys that own these operations can manipulate any untrustworthy platform like Twitter. They are making millions by rigging campaigns and get paid heftily by advertisers for that.
Twitter doesn’t care. It may block a million accounts one day, ten million more will pop the next one, and with an automated process, they begin building up followership.
This is a FAKE vote and while some may suspect so, the overwhelming majority still does not understand how the internet works. I tried to warn and explain, but there had been plenty thinking this could send a message of some sort.
I was following Litecoin and its various communities on social media for years. They are all dead communities now and LTC only recovered for a while in 2019 with Litecoin’s halving. It has nothing to do with Bitcoin Cash that is a hundred times ahead in technology and community terms.
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