...bots are used to dilute accounts that are anti-PC...
It's really quite baffling how the tech industry is pretty good at fighting ad click fraud, but Twitter is completely powerless when it comes to identifying bot accounts, a *far* easier problem (and which 3rd-party researchers have no issue tracking)
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Oh never mind, it's a Samsung.
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Do you think this has anything to do with the necessity for the social networks to show that they have a certain number of users/quarter?
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If financial impact is hard to measure, investors/govt/users don’t care then it’s easy see how it happens
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This conversation gets rehashed every so often. The short answer is that it's the user growth metrics that are keeping Twitter alive.
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It's only baffling if you think they care about their users vs their usage statistics (numbers they show their investors. $$$).
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What they don't seem to care enough about is the long-term impact on human users wanting to continue using their platform when solvable problems go unsolved.
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Incentives rather than competence seem like the gating factor in this particular case.
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It's not a technology issue, it's a business issue. Click-fraud hurts the bottom line; bot accounts help it.
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Cost of false positive is very different.
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When Google Search thinks you're a bot, it asks you to solve a Captcha (only once) before you can use the service. The handling of false positives is a completely solved problem, with negligible cost.
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