re: #1 Obdicut

I’ve even had some non-bots and non-LGF people start to follow me. Wahoo.

Last week I had at least two dozen bots suddenly follow me, with names like Tina_Stephenson, Theresa_Gray, Eugene_Evans, Albert_Owens, etc., all common first/last names separated by underscores, all with 200-500 followers themselves. The bots’ own Twitter feeds consisted of retweets of other people’s posts mixed with random quotes and dumb sayings — all of them with an identical flavor, but not identical quotes.

Something weird going on there, because there was no obvious spamming. I almost suspect someone was testing one of those “persona management” systems.