Worth reading despite many from HN likely knowing this existed already. What I find interesting is that to me and I assumed a lot of people, fake profiles are

Worth reading despite many from HN likely knowing this existed already. What I find interesting is that to me and I assumed a lot of people, fake profiles are very obvious and as such I assumed there were, relatively, easy techniques to deal with them. After working on some twitter marketing campaigns over the years and witnessing the swarming bot networks do their thing I have concluded that they are not dealt with whole heartedly on purpose.