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For the millionth time: the number of bots tweeting about something doesn't imply a lot of people are actually seeing the tweets. Also, afaik all the botometer
by emphatizer2000 6y ago
For the millionth time: the number of bots tweeting about something doesn't imply a lot of people are actually seeing the tweets.
Also, afaik all the botometers are crap, so studies based on them are also crap.
- Zuider 6y agoThe bot detectors are not very sophisticated, and they definitely have categorised several individuals whom I know to be real humans as 'bots,' apparently based on their political persuasion. It is ironic that human beings can fail a Turing test carried out by scripts, and disturbing that those peoples voices should be silenced based on such shallow criteria.
- ihsw 6y agoThat criteria was always meant to be political in nature.