> So Twitter has people on the payroll, and that’s all they do....create fake accounts?
Once you understand the immense power of the computer to fake anything, you’ll realize that how simple this is.
Twitter has a small team write the code to create these “users”. They then create the code which causes those “users” to post and reply and certain times.
It is really quite simple and has been going on for a _long_ time. Computers enable fake on an immense level. It is just software. Duh
Once they create the code; the tool; they can create as many “users” as they want, from 1 to tens of millions...