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To each his own ! I brutally prune the list of people I follow ; if I feel someone is spamming or retweeting garbage, I get rid of them. However, some people ma
by manishsharan 10y ago
To each his own ! I brutally prune the list of people I follow ; if I feel someone is spamming or retweeting garbage, I get rid of them. However, some people may not be so unforgiving and that is ok : they are probably the ones clicking on links in sponsored tweets.
- r721 10y agoI wish Twitter had better stats for that, I mean "this user's tweets are 5% of your timeline on average day" or something similar.
- cperciva 10y agoMost of this guy's followers are probably bots and other spammers. The problem arises if/when this noise is weighted equally with humans when it comes to deciding what is "trending".
- manishsharan 10y agoYou raise an important point I had not considered. Bots could skew trending metrics to favor spammers. That could get them more media coverage which could lead to influencers trying to get in on the coverage by re-tweeting spam. And the spammer succeeds. Unlike Google which mercilessly penalizes content farms, Twitter probably does not have the intellectual wherewithal to combat spammers.