If someone can give a short answer that a high school graduate can understand, what is the original purpose of these fake accounts? Is it what I suspect here on the 24HCF where one person answers himself with 2 or more operating names?
The "internet" runs on clicks. When you look at Twitter and see an ad for something you like, and then "click" on that ad, Twitter gets paid for sending you to the advertiser's website. Easiest way for Twitter to make more money is to "invent" or "allow" fake users (bots) that go around the website "clicking" on various ad links to generate additional revenue for Twitter.
Let's say you have been paying Twitter $1,000,000 per month for the past two years for advertising "clicks". Let's say Mr. Musk comes along and demonstrates that Twitter has been ripping you off for $200,000 per month for 20% "fake clicks" generated by their "fake bot users". Would you be just a little bit upset? Would you lawyer up and try to get back the $2.4MMM from Twitter that they stole from you with "fake clicks" ???
