A census of leading Italian politicians' Twitter followings finds a horde of zombies and bots

Proud owner of a zombie Twitter account here. I set it up a couple of years ago so I could check CTA transit delays, but found Twitter otherwise uninteresting, so I don’t use my account to “engage” (e.g. yelling, @-ing, tweetstorming) they way I imagine they’d like me to.

I never followed any Italian politicians though.

edit: I did follow that one Russian deep-sea fisherman guy who posts horrifying pictures of the things they catch. I should check in on that feed sometime…

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