I noticed my reach/engagement on X had fallen by 50-75% (possibly even more) and my tweepcred (account standing) had fallen from 80/100 to 49/100 within the space of a week.

After investigating the cause, I found that my account had been flooded with bots, beginning 1-2 weeks ago. Older posts with 2-5x the reach/engagement were not botted.

Obviously I wouldn't bot my own account because botting causes X's AI moderation to flag an account as suspicious and supress its natural reach.

I assumed somebody was trying to get me banned — a personal vendetta — but soon discovered that every single one of these bots had one retweet from a random RW Twitter account. I looked at ~100 bots and found zero retweets from left-wing accounts.

Now people from RW Twitter are reporting that their accounts are being banned for "inauthentic activity"; smaller accounts seem to be particularly vulnerable.

I find it suspicious that this malicious, targeted mass botting began around the time that X abolished email-only signup.