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There's a whole assumption that bots are a net negative to the platforms value besides any arguments over how many of them there are. As a human, it's annoying
by fooey 4y ago
There's a whole assumption that bots are a net negative to the platforms value besides any arguments over how many of them there are.
As a human, it's annoying to get get a reply notification only to discover it was bot spam, but from the platform perspective that bot just created user activity and content for you for free.
I have a theory that the most embarrassing thing to come out of this might be that Twitter doesn't really care about bots much more than issuing platitudes that they care about bots to assuage the user base.
- blackoil 4y agoIf there are too many bot activities, user may completely turn off notifications and reduce the usage.
- ryantgtg 4y agoI have like 9 twitter bots and they’re all cool and interesting. I wonder if Musk’s tool differentiates between cool and uncool bots. In the past I tried to write bots that do things like reply to people, but that is a violation of the TOS and twitter would immediately identify and ban the account.