Twitter is a confusing element to add to your social media marketing mix, if you don’t know what you’re doing.



Thousands of blog posts advise the fresh Twitter meat to use relevant hashtags to connect with like-minded individuals. Others advise engaging your followers by holding polls about things relevant to your industry. The important thing, these Twitter experts say, is to engage your followers. You only get out of it what you put in, after all.



None of this, however, explains why in the living fuck would ‘Real Housewives of Melbourne‘ star Gina Liano would have a Twitter bot to thank each and every new follower without @-ing them in the first place.



Hey laura ?? thanks for the follow! — Gina Liano (@Gina_Liano) December 23, 2016





It just… does not make sense.



Hey ??? thanks for the follow! — Gina Liano (@Gina_Liano) December 23, 2016





How? How can these people even see that you’ve tweeted them, Gina? What kind of engagement are you getting?



Hey Alexi thanks for the follow! — Gina Liano (@Gina_Liano) December 23, 2016





NOT. A. CLUE.



But here’s a free lesson in Social Media 101: Some people – and there’s always a few – some people on the internet are utterly depraved human beings and can’t even see an innocent, ill-advised Twitter bot without trying to fuck the whole thing up.

We alert your attention to the following Gina tweets:

Hey my clit is moist AF thanks for the follow! — Gina Liano (@Gina_Liano) December 23, 2016

Hey cliddy fugga thanks for the follow! — Gina Liano (@Gina_Liano) December 22, 2016





Obviously whoever’s managing Gina’s Twitter account caught these ones early one, but screenshots are the herpes of the internet and stick around forever.



SOCIAL MEDIA LESSON #224: Never set up a Twitter auto reply bot… pic.twitter.com/c4MSdkXcAc — Petra Starke (@petstarr) December 23, 2016





Guys. Turn off the bot already. Or don’t, and let’s ride this one out till the new year.

UPDATE: Oh no, it’s happened again.

Photo: Getty / Don Arnold.