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Amazon has disbanded the Twitter army it paid to tweet about how great Amazon is
- quantified 5y ago“Amazon says it has disbanded the Twitter army it paid to tweet about how great Amazon is” should be the title.
- mgh2 5y agoMedia manipulation recommended book: "Trust me, I'm lying"
- good8675309 5y agoHow many paid Twitter armies are there? Is it even possible to track or research?
- Apocryphon 5y agoThis is troubling. Every time a government refuses to pay an army and just disbands it without further compensation for its veterans, there is instability. Bremer's occupation in Iraq is the most recent example of this. Amazon is unleashing a destabilizing force upon social media, as now disgruntled, unpaid, ronin influencers are free to Tweet whatever they like, with no master to obey.