Only on Twitter is 'bot' now a loaded term the masses understand. In every other medium you could already (and many did) let some software post automatic posts

Only on Twitter is 'bot' now a loaded term the masses understand. In every other medium you could already (and many did) let some software post automatic posts (most benign example: "Here's my new blog post: xxxx") or scripts on irc. Where is the line? Technically scheduled tweets are automatic, and so, by some definition, bots.