Twitter Is Swarming With Robots and Haters and Maybe Some Advertisers With perhaps as many as one-in-10 accounts run by spammers (according to a new study) and a healthy subculture bent on subversion, Twitter — finding a sudden need to turn users into advertiser dollars — wishes everyone would grow up. Twitter is predicated on identity. People meet over Twitter, know each other by both the Twitter username and the contents of a Twitter feed — a streaming news ticker of someone’s conscious. The media, identified by Twitter handle on TV chyrons, cite eyewitness testimony or feedback conveyed from anonymous people in 140 characters or less.

Twitter Is Swarming With Robots and Haters and Maybe Some Advertisers With perhaps as many as one-in-10 accounts run by spammers (according to a new study) and a healthy subculture bent on subversion, Twitter — finding a sudden need to turn users into advertiser dollars — wishes everyone would grow up. Twitter is predicated on identity. People meet over Twitter, know each other by both the Twitter username and the contents of a Twitter feed — a streaming news ticker of someone’s conscious. The media, identified by Twitter handle on TV chyrons, cite eyewitness testimony or feedback conveyed from anonymous people in 140 characters or less.