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Where's the evidence that these are bots?
by laretluval 9y ago
Where's the evidence that these are bots?
- notahacker 9y agoRegardless of motives, I think it's blindingly obvious that getting 500 retweets within nine minutes for "wonder whether the use of the @DFRLab handle and talking about a bot attack is enough to trigger one" involves someone or some algorithm triggering a Twitter botnet. It's not like the original tweet was so entertaining that everybody seeing it would want to share or the original tweeter had more than a few hundred followers
- nl 9y agohttps://medium.com/dfrlab/botspot-twelve-ways-to-spot-a-bot-aedc7d9c110c https://medium.com/dfrlab/botspot-twelve-ways-to-spot-a-bot-...