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Ethanol-fueled and darkfeline wrote in with an Ars Technica article on a demonstration of how promoted tweets can be easily abused:
Promoted tweets have been part of the Twitter service since 2010, and they've allowed advertisers to pick and choose who sees specific ads based on "what a user chooses to follow, how they interact with a Tweet, what they retweet, and more." But users have found how loosely those ads are monitored or filtered before they reach users' eyeballs—and how cheap, fast, and easy the system can be exploited to annoy users as opposed to "engaging" them.
"I decided to spend a few pennies on Twitter ads today," [Weev's] post started, and he asserted that the platform's pricing structures "don't seem to take into account that one might want only to generate negative reactions to ad campaigns." Though Auernheimer didn't say exactly which users/groups he chose to target in his trolling campaign, he listed examples that appeared to jive with the sample of angry responses that followed: people who are active in Democratic political campaigns or animal rights groups; women who shop for fine jewelry; followers of known feminist sites like Jezebel and Feministing.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 08 2015, @03:52PM
I agree with everything you have posted. Last I checked the overall "non-reciprocal domestic violence" was perpetrated 70% of the time by women, but it is not even wort finding a source for considering crimes are rarely recorded when it is a woman against a man, thus really muddying up the waters and hard to find anything resembling facts. Another even less fun one is that, in psychology anyway, the majority of people being treated for sexual abuse as children claim that their own mother was the perpetrator. This holds true for both sexes. Yet mothers being sexually predatory to their own children being charged is impressively rare, and often are let off as being the lesser of two evils, the greater being the child having to do without their mother. At least that hits the news every so often, but the stats on sexual abuse never make it out of the journals.