Is Bitcoin surge driven by paid-publicity (similar to US election story)?

Re:Is Bitcoin surge driven by paid-publicity (similar to US ... by anudeep2011 on Friday December 08, 2017 @11:06AM (#15879617)

Those algos, ideally should weigh the twitter handle. Or else it's a stupid algo.

One need to spam through authoritative handles.

Pretty much like tricking google ranking algorithm with site-farms and fake backlinks. But hey, a lot of people were able to do this before Google started to improve its algo.

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Re:Is Bitcoin surge driven by paid-publicity (similar to US ... by chatmasta on Friday December 08, 2017 @12:58PM (#15880513)

Twitter can’t even tell the difference between an “authoritative” account and whatever the opposite is.

If any bots are scraping twitter for altcoin signals, I would be pretty surprised if there were any checks other than num followers / join date / etc. Determining if a twitter account is a bot, even with minimal certainty, is NOT an easy project. And many of these crypto traders are not exactly John Carmack either.

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