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Does anyone know what's up with the 8 digit user names? Pretty reliably they seem like trolls - not so much to put forth a particular view, but rather to sow confusion. Is it a co-ordinated action? Who is the source? How reliably is it known?
Via @fredbenenson and @gasca: this is (now, didn't used to be) one of the default ways Twitter provides new usernames!
I presume it means that people who don't bother changing the default aren't very invested in tweeting well, thus my pretty negative impression.
Excuse me, allow me to correct that: _on average_ this may be true. It is _not_ true of many individuals (which explains something that was perplexing me - thoughtful comments from such accounts).
I actually think it’s a default Twitter naming convention for new accounts
Are you sure you’re not seeing Eternal September, Twitter edition?
Heh. Love me some Usenet.
Started during the 2016 election. Literally no living human has ever called themselves Ross67504892, they are all bots...
I bet the expectation of digit density in Twitter account handles increases as a function of frequency of retweets and/or replies that @ a politician. Who wants to make a bet and then do all the data crunchin??
Sounds like a throwback to CompuServe.
Is this a common thing!? I thought I was being unique! (Anonymity is important to me.)
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