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Comment by BobbyTables2

2 days ago

Remember Twitter a few years ago?

Users are $$$. Nobody wants to talk about which are human and which aren’t. It’s all a game of hot potato.

I don’t think advertisers want to spend money for bot clicks.

  • That's why the social networks don't want to talk about the bots, but they are happy to have them.

  • Or maybe they do, because the big open secret in advertising is that they do spend quite a bit of money on exactly that

    • I don't even think it's a secret anymore, open or otherwise. As long as Vanity Metric Goes Up, it doesn't seem like anyone, anywhere, actually cares how much "economic activity" is fake.