The article didn't even touch the phenomenon of robots. Take Trump's Twitter account for example. A second after he tweets, there are other of retweets. How co

The article didn't even touch the phenomenon of robots. Take Trump's Twitter account for example. A second after he tweets, there are other of retweets. How come? it's robot that do it automatically. Now, if I (for some obscure reason) follow that robot, I'd see all of Trump's tweets. But hang on, if that's what I want to do, I'd just follow @realDonaldTrump, right? why should I get all his tweets from a robot? Another option is that the goal of these robots is to create artificial virality to Trump's tweets: "Oh, there are 5,023,482 retweets - this tweet (or this person) must be clever!" - which is the premise of this article. Retweets are trash.