Discovery of a big Twitter botnet for getting visitors to fake dating sites. With improving AI, it will become impossible to tell human from non-human on Twitter, and because AI attention is ~free, eventually ~100% of Twitter will be bots. Discuss.https://labsblog.f-secure.com/2018/03/16/marketing-dirty-tinder-on-twitter/ …
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Not sure what the ultimate consequence would be (e.g. fake sites crash from too many visitors, like feedback loop between a microphone and sound system?)
Bot visitors are useless because they don't actually buy anything. That's the end goal. All other metrics are just proxies.
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Won't sites have to deal with increased bot visitor volume? What about ad revenue, isn't that just based on thr number of "users" visiting a site and "seeing" an ad?
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Visitor volume is not a big issue, easy and cheap to scale to meet. Ad revenue is ultimately dependent on buys. The revenue per click is a function of the buy/click ratio. As that goes to ~0, so will ad revenue from clicks.
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