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You have to wonder if Twitter has any incentive to actually block these sorts of attacks. Especially as the attacks get better and harder to detect, the less it
by cracker_jacks 6y ago
You have to wonder if Twitter has any incentive to actually block these sorts of attacks. Especially as the attacks get better and harder to detect, the less it impacts Twitter's bottom line.
- raverbashing 6y agoIt probably counts as more active users and more ad views so I guess it's fine by them? Facebook already established it's fine to fake audience data to advertisers.
- er4hn 6y agoExactly. Twitter wants to increase active users and stats around posts and other interactions. Those are used to then drive sales of ads. Active users doesn't tie cleanly to the effectiveness of ads, but it looks like a nice top of line number.
- RobLach 6y agoThese bots are the perfect targets for showing ads about 5G given how interested they are in it! Maybe someday we can just do away with human run accounts.
- WrtCdEvrydy 6y agoWasteNet: A botnet designed to waste as much advertising cash as possible as quickly as possible. Download the Chrome extension and you can "adopt" bots which will be used to destroy more and more ad value.
- Klinky 6y agoMove over white males ages 18 - 34, the new most valuable demographic will be 1 - 2 week olds who are digital bots.