Policing bot accounts improves the quality of the site, but hands Elliot Management and others more ammunition that social isn't growing to expectations. Unfortunately these sites continue to pick to optimize the latter rather than the former.
Policing bot accounts improves the quality of the site, but hands Elliot Management and others more ammunition that social isn't growing to expectations. Unfortunately these sites continue to pick to optimize the latter rather than the former.
If the growth is largely from bots, then perhaps Elliot Management is right even if you disagree with the business dealings.
Twitter can't even fall back on being a public good, as it is has supposedly been a large vector for foreign political interference, and they haven't taken nearly the drastic manual moderation steps that Facebook has to combat this (hiring 15k manual content reviewers [1]). Facebook received huge pushback from investors over this decision, but it looks pretty savvy in retrospect.
[1] https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/25/18229714/cognizant-facebo...
_maybe_ that would put some pressure on Twitter?
https://osome.iuni.iu.edu/tools/botslayer
https://duo.com/assets/pdf/Duo-Labs-Dont-At-Me-Twitter-Bots.pdf
https://sparktoro.com/tools/sparkscore