>Or track the people struggling with development into a place where they can succeed like project management
Do you really want project managers who couldn't cut it as a developer?
I'm assuming we are talking about software projects here. If so, the idea of putting someone who couldn't make the grade on the bottom rung in charge of the whole enterprise seems like a bad idea.
>The bar for including javascript from other sites should be a high one
>but that's not how most developers think these days.
The decision to include third party javascript is sometimes not even up to developers these days.
"A deal has been signed with company X, put their widget on the site" is something I've now heard a few times.
Arguments about the third party code greatly increasing page load time, page size, introducing security vulnerabilities etc then fall on deaf ears. High developer turnover seems to co-occur in these environments.
>But these bots exist because some people actually use Twitter as a newsfeed for that sort of thing.
I would dispute that. I'd argue that the bots exist because spamming twitter is free. If it costs me $0 and I get even a tiny benefit out of it then it is to my advantage.
>After filtering 1,000 tweets per query, I barely found 10-20 real human users.
I am kind of surprised the number of human users is so high. I know a lot of bloggers of various sizes. To the best of my knowledge virtually all of them have hooked up one of the available services to post on their behalf. They either spend a little time scheduling out their tweets for the next week/month then forget about twitter until their schedule runs dry OR they set something up to randomly pick from some pool of blog posts and spam links.
Either way they then essentially never go on twitter again once things are up and running. The whole thing is full of bots talking to each other.
Do you really want project managers who couldn't cut it as a developer?
I'm assuming we are talking about software projects here. If so, the idea of putting someone who couldn't make the grade on the bottom rung in charge of the whole enterprise seems like a bad idea.