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02-07-2018, 05:12 PM
Why social media companies won’t kill off bots
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Bots, bots, everywhere, but nothing good to click.*
As the social media networks of the world engage in a performative struggle to become good for people's well being (https://mashable.com/2018/01/31/facebook-earnings-2017-50-million-hours-per-day-traffic/), they have been simultaneously peppered with questions about bots on their respective platforms. The automated accounts degrade the user experience and poison the well, the argument goes, and calls to cull them from Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram have only grown since the 2016 U.S. presidential election (https://mashable.com/2017/09/08/facebook-elect-trump-russia-election/).*
SEE ALSO: People think Facebook is listening to them. Here's how they're fighting back. (https://mashable.com/2017/11/01/facebook-microphone-spying-ads-preventing/)
The bots, however, are very much here to stay.* Read more... (https://mashable.com/2018/02/06/facebook-instagram-twitter-bots/)
More about Facebook (https://mashable.com/category/facebook/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Twitter (https://mashable.com/category/twitter/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Instagram (https://mashable.com/category/instagram/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Social Media (https://mashable.com/social-media/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), and Bots (https://mashable.com/category/bots/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Mashable/~4/p01tdq7mzOU
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Bots, bots, everywhere, but nothing good to click.*
As the social media networks of the world engage in a performative struggle to become good for people's well being (https://mashable.com/2018/01/31/facebook-earnings-2017-50-million-hours-per-day-traffic/), they have been simultaneously peppered with questions about bots on their respective platforms. The automated accounts degrade the user experience and poison the well, the argument goes, and calls to cull them from Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram have only grown since the 2016 U.S. presidential election (https://mashable.com/2017/09/08/facebook-elect-trump-russia-election/).*
SEE ALSO: People think Facebook is listening to them. Here's how they're fighting back. (https://mashable.com/2017/11/01/facebook-microphone-spying-ads-preventing/)
The bots, however, are very much here to stay.* Read more... (https://mashable.com/2018/02/06/facebook-instagram-twitter-bots/)
More about Facebook (https://mashable.com/category/facebook/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Twitter (https://mashable.com/category/twitter/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Instagram (https://mashable.com/category/instagram/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Social Media (https://mashable.com/social-media/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), and Bots (https://mashable.com/category/bots/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Mashable/~4/p01tdq7mzOU