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Most 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 decid
by cperciva 10y ago
Most 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.