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> if the bots can be kicked out The problem is that people disagree about the term bot. It should mean an account whose content is controlled exclusively by a
by threeseed 4y ago
> if the bots can be kicked out
The problem is that people disagree about the term bot.
It should mean an account whose content is controlled exclusively by an algorithm.
But instead it has come to mean anything they consider low-quality which often includes a lot of real people who are either paid to do so by state actors, have been radicalised or are just looking to troll. And it's very hard if not impossible to detect and ban those people.
- kmeisthax 4y agoNot to mention most studies on Twitter bots define one as "fifty interactions per day". If you define "heavy Twitter users" and "bots" to be the same thing, of course Twitter is going to be full of 'bots'.
- Karunamon 4y agoI have a prior, validated by experience, that anyone spending that much time of their day on Twitter likely has nothing of value to contribute. It would imply they work in PR, marketing, propaganda, or failing all of those, have little life outside the internet. Either way their content is likely to be of extremely low quality.
- devmor 4y agoThere is also the side case that they just have friends that use the platform. Or they like to retweet pictures of cats.