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There are smarter bots, which just retweet/favorite the tweets contains some special tags or words and follow the owner of the original tweet. Many owners of th
by tapirl 12y ago
There are smarter bots, which just retweet/favorite the tweets contains some special tags or words and follow the owner of the original tweet. Many owners of the original tweet will follow back, they are not bots, they are really people.
- AznHisoka 12y agoBy your definition, the spam bots in that article are not bots either because an actual human being created that bot, and made it follow other spam bots.
- tapirl 12y agoThe value of the spam bots in that article is really small. The only benefit I can think of is to sell them as followers.
- photorized 12y agoAlmost every online marketer does this type of automation. As you said, they goal is to get real people to look at their account, and to hopefully follow them. This is mild, comparing to some of the other activity that goes on.
- tapirl 12y agoSome ones market nothing, their intention is just to get more followers. Maybe they will marketing something later. I know such a bot, it gets 100+ new followers every day, all of them are really people.
- tripzilch 12y agoHow do you know they are really people? That behaviour is exactly what one would program a bot to do when interacting with unknown accounts.