Infiltrating the Jennifer Aniston Twitter Bot Squad – Yahoo

Welcome back to Saturday Night Social. I wasn’t sure at first how to slide into Jennifer Aniston’s DMs. After deleting “You look beautiful” for fear of being too forward, I landed on “Good morning, Jennifer.” Friendly and vague. Send. After all, this message wasn’t meant for the “real” Jennifer Aniston from the Friends and Aveeno days of yore. This was for Twitter user “Jenifer[sic] Aniston” with 2,221 followers, and a bio that reads, “I hope you never stop watching my movies.” In case you slept through the last decade, the website formerly known as Twitter has devolved into something of a patient zero for dead internet theory. In other words, it’s pretty much just bots, with a side of Poo Crave and Elon Musk. An article published in The New Yorker last week cited a study estimating that, in a sample of more than 1 million Twitter accounts, 64% were likely bots. And after taking several strolls through the dark halls of this hellsite, I now believe that Jennifer Aniston is responsible. Or rather, the fellowship of catfishing bots posing as Jennifer Aniston is responsible. Getting to know Jenifer I needed to know more, but I wasn’t getting anywhere with
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