Katharine Hayhoe: These days on Twitter, I would estimate it’s about 50-50. The bots there are getting smarter though. They are now using photos and real names – but you can tell by their their following. They are all lovely ladies looking for friends who enjoy travel, lottery winners, and crypto enthusiasts.

Yesterday, I shared this same Canada Day thread on Bluesky, Threads, and X. Here's what I found. 🧵

“Canada is such a northern country, don’t we want a little global warming?” I often hear. In a nutshell, NO. We’re warming 2x faster than the rest of the world, driving extreme heat, flood, and sea level rise we are not prepared for. The wildfire season started in Feb this year. Feb! #canadaday

Canada’s Changing Climate Reportchangingclimate.ca

Normalized responses -- the total number of likes and shares, divided by number of followers -- were highest here (yay!) and lowest on X.

There was an even bigger difference in the comments received. All on Threads and all but one here were positive, constructive, or neutral (one person was just being a jerk, not a troll). Only 18% on X were positive or neutral. The rest were negative, many highly so.

These twitter reactions are bizarre, especially considering how innocuous your original post was. It was rational and calm and not alarmist or emotional at all I don't get how people felt the need to attack or insult you, but I guess it somehow makes sense to those people. Weird.

They're not all people with real axes to grind, although I'm sure it helps if they basically align to the ideology being promoted.

These days on Twitter, I would estimate it’s about 50-50. The bots there are getting smarter though. They are now using photos and real names – but you can tell by their their following. They are all lovely ladies looking for friends who enjoy travel, lottery winners, and crypto enthusiasts.

lmao, but I mean there's bots and "bots", i.e. people paid to promote a particular agenda

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