I know a lot of the conversation about the API separates out good guys and bad guys, i.e. spammers. But I'm more and more thinking that Twitter and other platf

I know a lot of the conversation about the API separates out good guys and bad guys, i.e. spammers. But I'm more and more thinking that Twitter and other platforms should consider marketing automation to be a form of spam. Once you start questioning that there isn't a human behind the human account you give up on human interaction. So yeah, maybe there's some vanity metric that marketing automation props up for companies like Twitter. But underneath that vanity metric, the real quality of the site is being diminished.