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Could NYT quantify - through experimentation - the value of a bot army as the "story"? For instance a Tweet with 100 retweets is substantially more likely to g
by aresant 10y ago
Could NYT quantify - through experimentation - the value of a bot army as the "story"?
For instance a Tweet with 100 retweets is substantially more likely to generate additional retweets / be shown more by Twitter's algorithm / etc vs. a tweet with 10 retweets. And scale that up!
Easy to build an experiment and quantify even on a small level for NYT.
- stephengillie 10y agoThey could have tweeted, paid for a bot army to retweet, then reported on that.
- scholia 10y agoAnd then gotten criticized for being unethical....