Hi John,
Thanks for reading. I did not accuse any accounts in this blog of being bots, I called them “high-volume hubs” based on the large volume of tweets being emitted from their accounts which is publicly available and verifiable data.

I also specifically said “I believe there are a lot of real people spreading these hashtags” and after I published this blog 8 months ago, I spoke to several of them publicly and privately. Some were concerned, or at least curious, why an apparently fake conservative political marketing firm (AppSame) is boosting hashtags in their networks.

Cheers :)