Good post.
Years ago I worked for a company who advertised on a station that played Rush Limbaugh. I helped with social media and after he said something about the border we started getting hundreds of the same tweet demanding we boycott from a bunch of accounts that didn't appear to be legitimate (generic profile pic, no personal info, etc) and were also scheduled to be sent at the same interval. The "Russian Bots" trend always made me laugh after this.
I've also always found the amount of 40-60 year old women who have 100,000+ tweets only to right leaning political pundits/politicians that make very little sense in context to be puzzling and reeking of bot astroturfing.
Good post. Years ago I worked for a company who advertised on a station that played Rush Limbaugh. I helped with social media and after he said something about the border we started getting hundreds of the same tweet demanding we boycott from a bunch of accounts that didn't appear to be legitimate (generic profile pic, no personal info, etc) and were also scheduled to be sent at the same interval. The "Russian Bots" trend always made me laugh after this.
I've also always found the amount of 40-60 year old women who have 100,000+ tweets only to right leaning political pundits/politicians that make very little sense in context to be puzzling and reeking of bot astroturfing.