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Re:Amazon Uses a Twitter Army of Employees to Fight Criticis... by ilikehurdles on Thursday August 15, 2019 @11:41PM (#20712002)
Companies have been doing this for at least the last 8 years, just based on my own experience working for a company that provided a solution in this space. Amazon isn’t unique or even remotely the first. They’re just using one of those social media reputation dashboards to manage complaints and support issues before they go viral online.
Re:Amazon Uses a Twitter Army of Employees to Fight Criticis... by sak5sk on Thursday August 15, 2019 @11:49PM (#20712027)
Indeed, solutions for all needs. For example, presidential elections. Tweetattackspro, buyaccs.com anti-captcha.com

https://www.thedailybeast.com/i-bought-a-russian-bot-army-fo...

Anyone can start this up. Just get some bitcoin ready.

Re:Amazon Uses a Twitter Army of Employees to Fight Criticis... by Bayart on Friday August 16, 2019 @12:06AM (#20712087)
>Companies have been doing this for at least the last 8 years

Eight years ? To me they just look like good old strikebreakers in a modern context.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strikebreaker