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What's the best metric Twitter can use to say they're doing well? It's number of users. So fake users improve their rankings, and their "performance". Today
by stevekemp 9y ago
What's the best metric Twitter can use to say they're doing well? It's number of users. So fake users improve their rankings, and their "performance".
Today I posted a tweet, I received 12 "likes". 9 were from profiles created this month, with no profile details, no picture, and content which was 100% retweets. Fake users.
- rmetzler 9y agoYeah, and it's the same for Reddit. They don't care for bots reposting content they stole from legitimate users, because it makes the site look good.
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- CM30 9y agoAnd when you consider the other best metric for the company is activity/tweets per second/minute/hour/day, you can probably figure out the other half of why they don't crack down trolling, bullying or harassment in general. Being an overly confrontational jerk gets people replying to you, which makes the stats look good.