so some people on twitter seem to be falling for a screenshot of a fake article that claims twitter itself is using fake accounts to rt and like tweets for some "fictional social media project"

the real reason twitter sucks is because its users keep falling for this crap. tumblr was the same, this is tubbie custard 2.0
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Don't know if twitter itself does these kinds of manipulations (although I wouldn't be surprised), but I guarantee you that bots and fake accounts are definitely being used by private entities to inflate posts for various reasons.

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@alyx the bot part is true, but as far as i'm aware they're always bought by the users themselves to increase traffic. but afaik twitter as a company has nothing to do with it and there's no "fictional social media project"

@lottev
I don't know what "fictional social media project" is supposed to mean, but I wouldn't be surprised to find out in a few years that twitter is/was doing social experiments on it's users like facebook did.

Do we have proof of twitter as a company being involved in anything so far? No. But users would do well to remain vigilant, cause plenty of fucked up shit has already happened on these platforms.

@alyx either way, my point is that it was from a fake article and people believed it, twitter does a lot of fishy things but this isn't one of them
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