> [...] resident has sparked conversation online after he shared a perplexing discovery about his LG washing machine's seemingly voracious appetite for data on X

English is not my native tongue but I believe that sentence could be read like the washing machine is particularly interested in content on X.

Otherwise this is the perfect crime. Washing machines do use quite a bit of power. So why not try to mask farming bitcoins with power your own customers pay for?

The article fails to clearly link the X thread- here is the link;

https://twitter.com/Johnie/status/1744556503183585471

I struggle to understand how the data gathered from appliances can be worth the cost of running the servers that collect that data.

Getting notifications in an app can be useful, but doesn't require going outside the local network.

same as with marketing...never understood how some campaigns can spend way more than the actual product revenue

The washing machine is part of a bot net. Twitter is overflowing with bot tweets and likes and comments. This is how it happens.

probably colonised by few bots?