Author: Virginia Murr

Fake lottery winner accounts are a stark example of how well impersonation accounts flourish on Twitter. They are, effectively, Twitter scam accounts.

Why has Twitter allowed the tangled web of Bitcoin bots to dupe real users and to become so massive that it is able to influence real Bitcoin prices?

While some of the fake Russian accounts are created and then remain stagnant for a period, the Russian Bot Hostesses are much more active.

Among other things, fake United States Generals amplify political rhetoric. This makes them more concerning than most fake Twitter accounts.

Mysteriously, Twitter has avoided much of the scrutiny Facebook has faced—even though Twitter has committed similar data-privacy abuses.

Twitter props up white supremacist rhetoric by not penalizing it and by allowing fake accounts to amplify it.

One of the psychological tricks used by fake Twitter accounts is an appeal to sympathy. Hospital bots are a clear example of this.

Twitter’s model bots flood the platform. Once you know their faces, they can be identified visually. Here are 18 model bots we see frequently.

Twitter had such potential for real people to connect, share, learn, and debate.