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Also, bot detection is a quixotic quest. If it were that easy they'd have done it by now.
by arcticbull 4y ago
Also, bot detection is a quixotic quest. If it were that easy they'd have done it by now.
- strangattractor 4y agoI once worked for a non-profit no less that was trying to use "Article Views" as a new metric to rank academic articles. I did some simple things to filter out some rather obvious bots. Nothing fancy. That reduced the page views %75. Needless to say even the Non-Profit was seduced buy the inflated numbers hoping it would attract more authors. Followers=BullSh*T
- johannes1234321 4y agoWould they? - Bots drive engagement.
- croes 4y agoSo investors like bots and getting rid of the bots is a bad idea
- erik_seaberg 4y agoAdvertisers hate bots. As a user I only hate spammers (which are mostly beggars), but some users worry about bots because they want to believe Twitter can be representative of voters.
- croes 4y agoAdvertisers != investors
- strangattractor 4y agoDo they? What evidence? What kind of engagement? Is it the type you want?