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It may just mean that nothing is stopping a person marking their account as a bot (maybe in jest) and posting with it manually. Alternatively it may just be se
by gnode 8y ago
It may just mean that nothing is stopping a person marking their account as a bot (maybe in jest) and posting with it manually.
Alternatively it may just be semantics. Are fictional characters "people"? Does "person" imply sentience, or can it still be used in the archaic Roman sense of the word -- a persona; literally: a mask worn by a stage actor. In which case, if the bot is designed to imitate personality, it may be more apt to refer to it as automated than as a non-person.
- enkiv2 8y agoIt's pretty common to have a script post to your account on your behalf in an automated or semi-automated way, if you're a programmer. (It's pretty common to do this on twitter too, but twitter has no interest in marking bots.) If an account has both automated and organic posts, that account is both human and robot.