As someone who spends way too much time on Twitter (been using it since 2008), I see these kinds of articles often and have hardly ever encountered these types

As someone who spends way too much time on Twitter (been using it since 2008), I see these kinds of articles often and have hardly ever encountered these types of bots. Additionally, I've had my own account locked and shadow/ghost banned on twitter for having the words coronavirus or COVID-19 in tweets. It took weeks of never tweeting those words to undo it. I've even had my personal and business twitter accounts suspended all at once for "Violating Twitter rules of using multiple accounts for targeted harassment." They restored some of these accounts after filing an appeal and they said "We're sorry, but our systems mistakenly flagged your account." They never restored all of them and the ones restored have been locked permanently again because one account logged into the app used the C words again. One of the suspended accounts never to return was a 10K follower image bot for tech and old school computer images. Another was an account for my main business to announce news and server status updates. Whether bots are mucking up Twitter or not, Twitter itself is a horrible platform and company. I can't wait for the service to disappear into oblivion.