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Re:Twitter Still Can't Keep Up with Its Flood of Junk Accoun... by ForHackernews on Friday February 08, 2019 @12:06PM (#19116267)
Of course they don't want to kill the spam! Then they'd have to admit a huge fraction of their user accounts are fake.

For all the attention it gets, Twitter is a niche product with many fewer real human users than Instagram or even Snapchat.

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Re:Twitter Still Can't Keep Up with Its Flood of Junk Accoun... by phillipcarter on Friday February 08, 2019 @01:21PM (#19117107)
Bingo. Fake accounts and bots Make Number Go Up And To The Right, so why on earth would they want to stop them?
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Re:Twitter Still Can't Keep Up with Its Flood of Junk Accoun... by simple_phrases on Friday February 08, 2019 @01:46PM (#19117374)
Yep. They told their investors tall tales about engagement and growth, and would have to back track considerably if they were honest about the amount of bots on their service.
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