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The obvious answer why Twitter hasn’t banned bots is to help keep their DAU metrics up

• axg11 5y ago
  In an efficient market public investors would demand to know the true/accurate DAU metrics with bots removed.
  • tiahura 5y ago
    Only if the benefit of actually knowing outweighed the effort of finding out. Twitter is a mature business. Revenue is driven by ad rates. Ad rates are driven by big buyers who know how effective their buys are — regardless of bots and whatever stats Twitter gives them or us. Therefore, investors have little reason to care about bots.
• carrja99 5y ago
  Bingo. Just the other day I saw someone arguing with bob8374922 in a very long thread. When I clicked on bobs profile he had zero followers and account was created this year, no tweets that weren’t replied to others arguing insane “I’m a critical thinker!” Positions. A very common theme.
  • yebyen 5y ago
    I myself had a full conversation with one of the bots that appears if you say "Metamask" before I realized that @meta2mask was not really a helpful support person from the internet, and was actually a scammer trying to get crypto seeds.
  • rgj 5y ago
    So is this a bot or a brand new user who decided to spill his frustration about society online and accepted the default username suggestion that Twitter offered him?