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by blaser-waffle 2500 days ago
Most online shill-bots are 1) bots, 2) outsourced to india/china/russia/rural US/etc.

They sound like real people who aren't PR execs because that's what they are. They're just hired by [3rd Party Marketing Firm] cuz they're stay at home moms or making use of Mechanical Turk for cash on the side.

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According to this article, they're actual warehouse employees who tweet one day and work on the warehouse three other days:

https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/23/what-is-this-weird-twitter...

Is a normal warehouse schedule 4 tens?
shift work comes in all kinds of splits; it's pretty normal anywhere