Posted on 03/11/2017 8:21:00 PM PST by ConservativeStatement
A big chunk of those "likes," "retweets," and "followers" lighting up your Twitter (TWTR)account may not be coming from human hands. According to new research from the University of Southern California, up to 15 percent of Twitter accounts are in fact bots rather than people.
The research could be troubling news for Twitter, which has struggled to grow its user base in the face of growing competition from Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and others.
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
well they sued to be people- now they are delicious soylent green chips
used to be- not sued to be- where’s my editor at?
48 million? Are you sure it’s not 11 million illeg..Oh wrong thread.
"Facebook estimates that 4.8 percent are duplicate accounts, 2.4 percent are user-misclassified accounts, and 1.5 percent are undesirable accounts. ... Facebook estimates 8.7 percent, or 83.09 million accounts."
Are they cats and dogs? Ferrets? Robots?
At last . . . an explanation for the followers of Zero.
FAKE TWITTER FOLLOWERS.
How low can you go?
Is this a harmless lie, or misinformation that can inflate the Twitter stock price? I tend to think the later.
That ‘dog’ has got to be curbed and better controlled.
The year 2017:
Where 48 million twitter users aren’t people, but Soylent Green is.
CC
Twitter is much more useful to me for news than Facebook. Concise, You can scan hundreds of Tweets very quickly.
Politicians buy fake twitter followers to make them look more popular than they are. This is one of the reasons President Trump won the messaging war in the campaign. He had 20 million real followers. When he tweeted, people received the message. But Clinton’s were fake. When she tweeted, her messages went to a robot. She could not get her messages out for free like President Trump could, and had to buy expensive TV advertising to reach people.
I’ll never get the appeal of Twitter.
undocumented twits
Hillary Clinton supporters.
I’ve read that FB suffers from a significant “ghost account” problem. Accounts where the identity of the user can’t be confirmed. Advertisers are paying for “eyeballs”, but what happens when 25% of those “eyeballs” don’t really exist?
Dang! I can’t read it, Chode!
maybe it didn’t post, try the link
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