Twitter Followers Vanish Amid Inquiries into Fake Accounts

Re:Twitter Followers Vanish Amid Inquiries into Fake Accounts by Pxtl on Wednesday January 31, 2018 @03:20PM (#16277173)

The trick with Twitter is that basically these bots are invisible unless you search hashtags or read the replies to a popular person who is spammed by them. It's not like anybody sane would follow these bots.

Twitter's model is basically "shouting at the universe" but if nobody listens it doesn't matter.

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Re:Twitter Followers Vanish Amid Inquiries into Fake Accounts by lugg on Wednesday January 31, 2018 @04:19PM (#16277637)

Problem being investors do listen to these metrics and nobody really knows how bad the noise is in that data being shared.

I 100% guarantee twitter knows the exact ratio of real to unreal users and their content.

They're also trying to slowly crack down on bots.

A year ago they insta locked your account if it looked like automated liking of content.

Now they're insta locking if you look like a follow/unfollow bot.

Its a balancing act and I feel like its analogous to getting out of extreme debt. They're trying to replace bots as their real user base grows internally.

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