For the past year, Twitter has been plagued by stories of its decline — stories that got fresh momentum with the company’s latest quarterly report and the exit of CEO Dick Costolo. In their explanations for why Twitter ain’t what it used to be, critics often cite the proliferation of spam accounts: robots that exist purely for the sake of padding out follower numbers and hijacking hashtags.
How Bots Took Over Twitter
The human voices that made the platform work have been lost.
June 19, 2015