WERE MYSTERIOUS TWITTER ALERTS A FORGERY SCHEME GONE WRONG?
everyone has been speculating about these mysterious alerts but today twitter has released a massive public data set of supposed "russian bot" tweets.
it should be strongly considered that the alerts that went out were part of an attempt to forge a record of fake activity tied to this narrative release.
in this scenario twitter would have tried to create a record of alerts and activity to attribute to "russian bots." most likely a part of their system was supposed to filter these messages out but that system failed and so users ended up seeing them.
if so, yet another epic fail for @jack who is a complete fucking idiot
https:// www.politico.com/story/2018/10/17/twitter-foreign-influence-operations-910005