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Can anyone familiar with Twitter explain how people like Jeff Tiedrich, Eugene Gu, ToddlerTrump, TrumpOwO, etc, manage to be the first few responders to everyth
by BitwiseFool 6y ago
Can anyone familiar with Twitter explain how people like Jeff Tiedrich, Eugene Gu, ToddlerTrump, TrumpOwO, etc, manage to be the first few responders to everything @realDonaldTrump tweets?
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To expand on this, some of these accounts are clearly bots that just modify the text of the tweet. I can see how easy it would be to make these bots - but not how they manage to be the first responses so consistently. Surely there are other competing bots trying to do the same thing?
Others are direct responses to the content the president tweeted about. Dr.Gu frequently writes paragraph length rebuttals but I assume such responses take time to craft - so there's no way he could have been the first to respond with so much content, right?
- tomjakubowski 6y agoDo those accounts really manage to get "frost pist" status? Their replies often appear first when you open a tweet from president Trump, but I assume replies are listed in order by some popularity measure and not chronologically.
- ehsankia 6y agoThis is very easy to verify, go under any big tweet and you can see that the replies are not chronological. It is indeed trying to use some sort of popularity metric. Having many followers that see and like your tweets would definitely help you get positions higher than random bots.
- spondyl 6y agoI didn't have any luck with search so I'd be curious to know what "frost pist" status is or refers to?
- MauranKilom 6y agoA (presumably intended, as in satirical) misspelling of "first post".
- cataflam 6y agofirst post, but with some letters moved around, a popular form of discourse in general and as internet memes in particular a google search does return some examples if you force it to https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q="frost+pist" https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q="frost+pist"
- spondyl 6y agoFunnily enough, "forcing" that search prompts Google to suggest "frost post" instead. I might have done that originally and not noticed that Google pulled the rug from under me. Forcing "frost pist" showed some dictionary links for terms like "frost over" among some forum posts, that on closer inspection give away what you mentioned. That's what I get for skimming too quickly
- iratewizard 6y agoSpam bots as a form of attack is OK when you are desperate to prevent someone from being elected. At least that's Twitter's official policy.
- lenitabinol 6y agoIs it hard to understand why people are disgusted by him? If you can't acknowledge that, it's hard to have a conversation at all. His type of behavior and language brings out hate and revulsion in even the kindest people. If you don't get it, I don't know what to say. It has nothing to do with his politics or policy stances, it has to do with his behavior.
- commandlinefan 6y agoDisgusted? No, I really don't see it. He's a bit of (ok a lot of) a hot-head, and definitely not politically correct, but otherwise he's not that much different than past presidents besides actually saying what he's thinking.
- Goladus 6y agoThis post is being downvoted to protect the echo chamber. No dissent is allowed, even on an obviously subjective matter such as interpretation of a public figure's behavior.
- rootusrootus 6y agoWe have reached a low place when 'grab em by the pussy' is open to subjective interpretation.
- deadly_syn 6y agoI don't think they were explicitly trying to interpret that term specifically, the vibe I got was that a person's character is open to interpretation. If 'grab em by the pussy' is what you wanna focus on specifically that's your deal. But there are other facets outside of just the use of that phrase. I'm not saying it was proper or the right thing to say but in context of discourse it intellectually disingenuous to use that as an excuse to shut down an entire conversation
- pizza 6y agoProbably a few people working to be the first to reply for each account