On: Twitter Is Crawling with Bots and Lacks Incentive ...

[lostapathy]

If somebody has hundreds or thousands of accounts, it implies they are running bots ... which I guess brings the whole argument back to the point that active humans with multiple personas are not responsible for inflation of reach stats.

[r00fus → lostapathy]

You're implying that identities created using persona management software [1] are bots? I guess you could though they'd likely pass a turing test.

[1] https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2011/2/16/945768/-

[lostapathy → r00fus]

I'm implying that if you have hundreds of accounts, you must be using software to manage it and aren't actively engaged with all of them yourself. Therefore, they are no better than bot accounts.