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> I'm always surprised that the people posting the misinformation aren't terribly embarrassed about it when it's revealed. Alternatively, the people posting mi
by yorwba 5y ago
> I'm always surprised that the people posting the misinformation aren't terribly embarrassed about it when it's revealed.
Alternatively, the people posting misinformation were terribly embarrassed, posting less on Twitter as a result, while the bots kept posting at their original schedule, thus decreasing average quality as a result.
The paper seems to be lacking information about absolute tweet counts, so it's hard to tell what the change in their relative measures means in practice.
- joering2 5y agoMy impression from being on twitter daily, is that some people (plenty) love to play stupid on Twitter, never mind their wisdom. I mean I find pilots, neurosurgeons, C-level execs, Harvard grads, etc, acting ridiculous, mostly related to politics but not only. I think its as pure trollism as it can get. And they never learn - I see someone laying down facts, using reason, logic etc.. then they are back spewing lies the next day. If you wanna turn the nicest person into a monster, just leave them on twitter for a week or two.