[BipolarBob]

Little robots that post positive or negative comments according as to how they are programmed. They can attack or praise a person to shape the public’s opinion about someone.

[Reaganez]

This is probably negotiation.

Musk will end up buying twitter.

For a lot less than $44B.

[MinorityRepublican]

it’s a Russian dude in his underwear who’s simultaneously tweeting to 5,000 other people.

Thanks for that image.

[joshua c]

twitter will never go to discovery

[Governor Dinwiddie]

The bots are used to defraud advertisers, making them think that more folks are viewing their advertisements than in reality. That's one of the reasons Musk backed out. Twitter couldn't confirm that all "users" of twitter were real, and not bots.

[roving]

I have never seen a spam tweet.

[dangus]

Black Lives Matter was a Russian bot creation on Facebook. Yes, the Russian meddling on Facebook created more anti-Clinton than anti-Trump posts. But their anti-Clinton posts were so bizarre, often apocalyptic wierdness, unless attacking from the Left (pro-Bernie, BLM, pro-gay), in which case they, like the anti-Trump posts, were lapped up by crazy by the insane Left which believed absolutely anything they were told.

[Sirius Lee]

Another use for bots is for influencers

They don't bother to mention the biggest social media influencer of all - the U.S. Government, or some CIA/Mockingbird type operation thereof. It might be a wholly self funded ngo/contractor black op by now (Rand Corp?) pushing the propaganda 24/7. But journalists aren't going to investigate the folks who are also spoon feeding them their talking points.

[Honest Nigerian]

my guess is that Musk knew all along how prevalent the bots are on Twitter. Still, he is shrewd. And I figure what he knew plus all the legalities of misrepresentations, etc., etc. will serve him well.

[SamAdams76]

When I was on Twitter, I had many of these bots randomly follow me with handles like @meghanpatriot447392.

Then I had the creepy "Hi, how are you?" DMs as soon as I followed back some of them. Those got immediately unfollowed and blocked.

I eventually learned that most handles with a bunch of numbers in them are not real people.

[TBP]

Elon Musk says he’s not buying Twitter for $44 billion because of all the bots & fake accounts. Twitter says it’s suing him to compel purchase. I’d bet on a lower purchase price being negotiated before all is done here.

— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) July 8, 2022

That would be my bet also.

[Libloather]

Twitter claims to remove more than 1 million spam accounts per day

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/technology/twitter-claims-removal-million-spam-accounts

[NetAddicted]

This article thrills me. Explains completely what I was only kind of sure about.