[kictanet] The Follower Factory - The New York Times

[Ali Hussein]

Listers

To what extent are those followers on twitter for your favorite socialite, politician or celebrity real people or Bots?

Here’s an interesting expose from the New York Times. 

#GoFigure 

THE REAL JESSICA RYCHLY is a Minnesota teenager with a broad smile and wavy hair. She likes reading and the rapper Post Malone. When she goes on Facebook or Twitter, she sometimes muses about being bored or trades jokes with friends. Occasionally, like many teenagers, she posts a duck-face selfie.

Read on:-

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/01/27/technology/social-media-bots.html


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