Some Twitter users have hundreds of thousands of followers. Wow, they must be really important celebrities. Or maybe they have interesting and influential ideas. Or maybe they’ve just paid for a few thousand follow bots to puff themselves up. Isn’t that . . . cheating? Not according to technology researcher danah boyd, and she explains why not in this February 2018 essay on the blog NewCo Shift.
boyd, “The reality of Twitter puffery. Or why does everyone now hate bots?”
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