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I'm surprised they don't do it for the obviously fake accounts posting in favour of Donald Trump. There's something very fishy with some of those comments, and
by osrec 7y ago
I'm surprised they don't do it for the obviously fake accounts posting in favour of Donald Trump. There's something very fishy with some of those comments, and the profiles that they come from are very sparse. It should be easy enough to flag/detect automatically.
- altcognito 7y agoI've had sarcastic supported upvoted by Trump bots as true support to the tune of hundreds of accounts. It's almost embarrassing how manipulated Twitter is. Facebook is a lost cause. The climate change stuff they repost alone convinces me we're not going to win the 21st century propaganda war.
- osrec 7y agoFunnily enough, my original comment is now being down voted now, after a series of up votes. That's unusual...
- osrec 7y agoI don't know why you're getting down voted. Perhaps I exist in a bubble, but everything you say makes complete sense to me, and I can corroborate it with my own experiences. I can't imagine why someone would down vote it, unless...
- wpietri 7y agoTwitter does remove a lot of bot/spam accounts, and always has. But you don't generally notice it, because you only see the accounts that remain. Because of a quirk in how some spammers operate, one of my accounts gets a few spam DMs requests per day. I know about them because I get an email about the DM. But when I look at my DMs, those accounts have almost always been removed by the time I get there.