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Researchers create bot that poses as Twitter user and automatically follows other users at random, are surprised that other Twitter users automatically follow t
by voyou 12y ago
Researchers create bot that poses as Twitter user and automatically follows other users at random, are surprised that other Twitter users automatically follow their bot at random.
(I've only skimmed the paper, so I may have missed it, but they don't seem to take any measures to check whether their bot tricks actual people into engaging with it, or whether the apparent engagement is just the effect of other bots working at random.)
- jkirch 12y agoI've got a Twitter bot whose sole purpose is to send links from reddit to Twitter - it gets a lot of replies from people confusing the bot with the human(?) Redditors - often when the bot posts conflicting "personal" information.
- sciguy77 12y agoThat's interesting. Can you tell us more about the project and its motivations?