I work in the music industry. The clearest sign that something is suspect is constantly trending celebrity names when they have no new/real news involved. The

I work in the music industry. The clearest sign that something is suspect is constantly trending celebrity names when they have no new/real news involved. The other indicator is accounts that have over 10k followers on them, nut every tweet they make has only 10 or less likes on it. They cover that activity up by retweeting others/old posts that have multiple likes on them. I won't mention names, but just the other day I made a tweet about a news outlet reporting on a terrible homicide and the news outlet was using a celebrity's photo rather than a photo of a victim in the incident or no photo at all, and suddenly the celebrity artist's name started trending with tons of old posts retweeted and obviously simple (bot-like) posts were made tagging the artist's name to bury my comment out of view... It happened twice that day. I am used to the dysfunction and subtle marketing tactics used on the site, not really anything worth protesting against any more.