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catbyte

(34,425 posts) Wed Nov 20, 2019, 04:21 PM Nov 2019

Illuminating: Top Trollbot Retweets in the Past 24 Hours:

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Illuminating: Top Trollbot Retweets in the Past 24 Hours: (Original Post) catbyte Nov 2019 OP

Interesting RainCaster Nov 2019 #1

They have a process to verify supposed bots NewJeffCT Nov 2019 #5

kick and rec superpatriotman Nov 2019 #2

Wasn't it something like 1/2 of Trump's followers were bot accounts? Initech Nov 2019 #3

Probably with a little help from our non-friends DFW Nov 2019 #4

RainCaster

(10,910 posts)

1. Interesting

Reply to catbyte (Original post)

Wed Nov 20, 2019, 04:46 PM

Nov 2019

Where can I find this?

If Twitter knows they are bots, why don't they disable/deny/nuke those?

NewJeffCT

(56,828 posts)

5. They have a process to verify supposed bots

Reply to RainCaster (Reply #1)

Wed Nov 20, 2019, 05:06 PM

Nov 2019

I think they send some sort of verification email where you have to confirm your account, so it doesn't happen overnight. And, by the time that happens, there will be new bots created

superpatriotman

(6,252 posts)

2. kick and rec

Reply to catbyte (Original post)

Wed Nov 20, 2019, 04:47 PM

Nov 2019

Initech

(100,097 posts)

3. Wasn't it something like 1/2 of Trump's followers were bot accounts?

Reply to catbyte (Original post)

Wed Nov 20, 2019, 04:48 PM

Nov 2019

Maybe it was more than that?

DFW

(54,434 posts)

4. Probably with a little help from our non-friends

Reply to catbyte (Original post)

Wed Nov 20, 2019, 05:00 PM

Nov 2019

Savushkina Street 55 in СПБ and Directorate 74455 of the ГРУ

Sounds like the ultimate conspiracy theorist refuge, but these people are real, and they are active, and they clap their hands in delight every time their work is dismissed as the fantasy of American "libbrul" crackpot theorists.

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