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fairly easy to spot the bots, but they all follow each other and have at least one (usually only one) picture of "themselves" to seem legit. the content of thei
by nfRfqX5n 9y ago
fairly easy to spot the bots, but they all follow each other and have at least one (usually only one) picture of "themselves" to seem legit. the content of their twitter is all retweets or harsh responses. click on any political trending topic and see for yourself.
this has been going on for well over a year now, really surprised twitter can't figure out a decent solution like shadowbanning
- linkregister 9y agoI agree with everything you said, the bots will respond with inapplicable snarky responses to the target their programmer wishes to delegitimize. "Check your sources" for a post from CNN talking about their lunch today, etc. I disagree that shadowbanning is a good idea; any frequent Twitter user remembers the controversy surrounding various outspoken celebrities claiming they were being shadowbanned as a result of their views. Probably a better solution would be to require a daily captcha or other solution to add friction and cost to bot operators.