<p>I contacted a friend on another SE chat who gave me <a href="https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/183407/301021">this link</a> and they also posted it above as a comment by an anonymous user.  Basically the accepted answer said that:</p>

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  <p>"it looks like each [SE controlled Twitter] account is set up to automatically tweet a new status every 3 hours"</p>
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<p>In analyzing the links sent out by the Twitter stream it strongly appears that this is the action of a bot and not the action of a user promoting content in an attempt to get an <a href="https://stats.stackexchange.com/help/badges/59/announcer"><kbd>Announcer</kbd></a>, <a href="https://stats.stackexchange.com/help/badges/60/booster"><kbd>Booster</kbd></a>, or <a href="https://stats.stackexchange.com/help/badges/61/publicist"><kbd>Publicist</kbd></a> badge.  This is because links generated by the <a href="https://stats.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2721/89026"><kbd>share</kbd></a> link follow a distinct format of: </p>

<p><code>&lt;base url&gt;/&lt;q|a&gt;/&lt;question id | answer id&gt;/&lt;user id&gt;</code></p>

<p>The links shared in the Twitter stream drop the user id section so any user trying to earn badges like this couldn't earn the badge.</p>

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<p>It seems on Facebook this work is done <a href="https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/244189/avoid-sharing-bad-questions-at-facebook">manually</a>.</p>
