As a system, Twitter is easy to "game", if your goal is to spread information. It's trivial to boost the apparent "credibility" of a given account with followe

As a system, Twitter is easy to "game", if your goal is to spread information. It's trivial to boost the apparent "credibility" of a given account with followers, likes, and retweets. There is essentially no barrier to exploiting these "commodities" with networks of bots artificially boosting these stats. Soon, the synthesized noise from bot accounts drowns out the organic signal of genuine accounts. Waves of content reverberate through the Twittersphere, into and from other channels like 4chan, Facebook and Instagram.