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Why do we need to identify and ban those in the first place?. When I used Twitter I never thought "oh man, these spam bots are ruining my twitter experience". It was more like "Oh, another bot is following me". Didn't waste more than 2 seconds of my day.



The bots are manipulating the trending topics which means they're driving the kinds of conversations happening on twitter.




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