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ntheuon32tnoe on Oct 13, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Twitter Is Crawling with Bots and Lacks Incentive ...

If they did that, then wouldn't normal people just claim that their accounts were bots, and then they wouldn't be served ads anymore?

discodave on Oct 13, 2017 | [–]

Twitter could differentiate between access through official clients and APIs.

WhiteNoiz3 on Oct 13, 2017 | [–]

Good point. Sounds like there needs to be a bot tax. ;)

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