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Twitter is filled with bots, (or people) spouting angry rhetoric already. I suspect they originate from international adversaries because they play both sides o
by justinzollars 4y ago
Twitter is filled with bots, (or people) spouting angry rhetoric already. I suspect they originate from international adversaries because they play both sides of hot button issues, they tweet nothing about politics all day long, follow/follower counts are roughly equal, their sn's look generated and they have tribal tag lines and images. It doesn't make sense to me that these are real people, and their numbers are huge. Twitter really needs to get on top of this problem
- snoopy_telex 4y agoIt's really hard to tell whose a bot and whose not. https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/8whwmo9 https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/8whwmo9 covers a case where they hunted down someone they were sure was a bot and ended up being a real person.
- kube-system 4y agoMost astroturfing on the net is cheaper to do with low paid labor in content farms than with high paid developers. People are inclined to presume sloppy posts are automated, but similarly sloppy results happen when low paid ESL workers copy/paste content. The pro move with political astroturfing is: don’t target the people who you want to influence, target people who are already inclined to agree with you. They’ll latch on to ideas that resonate with them and amplify your message out to a broader audience. You end up getting 50 “bots” for the price of one.