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So, it's a little difficult to come up with solid numbers on it, but most estimates I've seen are that there are approximately 300-500 million tweets per day.

So, it's a little difficult to come up with solid numbers on it, but most estimates I've seen are that there are approximately 300-500 million tweets per day. All of this activity amounts to about eight and half minutes of daily tweet volume, spread over two years. People get very zoned in on very small and rare occurrences. I see this all the time in software support; a customer will report some bug, and claim that it is happening constantly; you dig a little more, and they continue to insist that it is happening all the time; when you get to the bedrock facts in logs and traces, you find that it happened twice out of tens of thousands of interactions over the last few months.

tensecondflash 8y ago
I think the goal of these efforts is to provide material that gets picked up and spread by others, amplifying their message. They help to normalize an environment of divisiveness and extremism.
- megaman22 8y ago
  As intelligence services have always done, are doing now, and will do until the end of time. I do find this whole "The Russkies are Coming!" narrative bizarre; everything that's been totaled up so far keeps amounting to a pisshole in the snow compared to domestic election spending or outragism peddled by home-grown media.
  - dplgk 8y ago
    The difference is perception and tangibility. We can see and count these tweets...and to some degree quantify their effect (e.g. Retweets). And this is a much greater bang for the buck with no feet on the ground.