*Twitter has an algorithm that creates harassment all by itself*

Harassment is such a harsh word, let's call it 'engagement'.
From glitch girl MC Mclure's Twitter feed:

So I don't know what I was expecting to find with this "experiment". It was half a joke. The other half was basically "I wonder what will happen".

But I *did* find something. Something really interesting.

*Twitter has an algorithm that creates harassment all by itself* https://t.co/uSoQtYUqNi

— mcc (@mcclure111) June 26, 2019

So get this. I make the tweet. The first hundred or so are my followers over an hour or so. The next hundred are more followers trickling in overnight.

But then it *kept coming*. Another hundred from people I don't know. Don't follow me. Mostly people with very low following#? pic.twitter.com/52hLvrnQ3O

— mcc (@mcclure111) June 26, 2019

Normally I'd assume that's RTs. But what makes the "do not read the replies" tweet an interesting test case is it has *very* few RTs, and ~few favs.

That second lady's instructive. She doesn't follow anyone who RTed *or* faved the tweet. But *does* follow someone who *replied*

— mcc (@mcclure111) June 26, 2019

Clearly what Twitter's doing is finding people with low-flow timelines & filling space in with "high engagement" tweets ("things you're likely to reply to too"). This tells us 2 things

- It's not just "favs are RTs" now; REPLIES might be RTs too

- TWITTER HAS AUTOMATED PILEONS

— mcc (@mcclure111) June 26, 2019

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