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Illuminating: Top Trollbot Retweets in the Past 24 Hours: (Original Post)
catbyte
Nov 2019
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RainCaster
(13,447 posts)1. Interesting
Where can I find this?
If Twitter knows they are bots, why don't they disable/deny/nuke those?
NewJeffCT
(56,848 posts)5. They have a process to verify supposed bots
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
(6,819 posts)2. kick and rec
Initech
(107,981 posts)3. Wasn't it something like 1/2 of Trump's followers were bot accounts?
Maybe it was more than that?
DFW
(59,877 posts)4. Probably with a little help from our non-friends
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.

