For what it’s worth, while Twitter has a huge incentive to say that they have an incentive to minimize fake accounts, it’s not clear that they actually do. For

For what it’s worth, while Twitter has a huge incentive to say that they have an incentive to minimize fake accounts, it’s not clear that they actually do. For instance, it might be the case that their optimal level of BS is not zero. If they do indeed have such an incentive, it would be very hard to tell using the company’s representations and their own internal metrics would likely implicitly bias away from seeing what was there. This is also the parsimonious explanation for the junk filling Amazon and, say, the Apple store. While it is optimal for users to have the level of spam at zero, it may be optimal for the purveyors for the level to be above zero.