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>I would have thought the purpose of bots on twitter was either to boost follower counts or retweet counts Another idea: Could be that the bots first establish
by a_bonobo 14y ago
>I would have thought the purpose of bots on twitter was either to boost follower counts or retweet counts
Another idea: Could be that the bots first establish a base-line as "non-spammy", i.e. legit, users by posting by themselves without sending any links directly to people. This goes on for a couple of weeks, until Twitter's automated anti-spam-process classifies them as "legit", after which the bots switch over to "spam-mode" and start spamming. Just an idea.
- einaregilsson 14y agoYeah, it must be some kind of starting up thing, behaving normally for a few days or weeks. But even so, these are then really bad at it. ClintonGoodhue for example has one tweet, which is a link to my game, no profile picture and only follows one person. Maybe it's just someone's first attempt at creating bots :)