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I'm sure they have an API bots can use.

• marcan_42 5y ago
  The API doesn't know whether there's a human behind it or not. It's the same API used for third-party clients.
  • zodiakzz 5y ago
    Easily detected by IP ranges.
    • cerved 5y ago
      because obviously there's no way to obfuscate an IP address /s
    • zimpenfish 5y ago
      If I'm using my VPN, my Twitter bots will be coming from the same IP range as me using Tweetbot or the Twitter website. Even without the VPN, I occasionally have a bot that posts from a home machine with the same IP range as Tweetbot et al.
• timvdalen 5y ago
  How would you differentiate between a human sending a tweet via the API and a bot?
  • capableweb 5y ago
    User-agents
    • hnlmorg 5y ago
      - User-Agent is an optional HTTP header - RESTful APIs don't even expect a User-Agent - User-Agent is customisable (ie bad bots can trivially use an array of seemingly authentic strings) - Even Google are moving away from using User-Agent for identification.