Twitter Bots

The New York Times recently did a deep dive on the “Follower Factory,” or the new practice of Twitter users buying…

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At some point in the past few decades, Lego toys got a lot more complicated. There were more moving parts. The…

If you’ve ever been brave enough to express a closely held belief online, you’ve undoubtedly run into somewhere…

Perhaps you already believe your tweets to be as beautiful and profound as actual poetry. Chances are you’re wrong.…

The best people to follow on Twitter are not people. They’re robots. About half of my personal Twitter feed consists…

Twitter bots—computer programs designed to produce automated posts on the internet’s premier ubiquitous social…

Many people’s first reactions, upon hearing an actor like John Boyega smugly declaring that those opposed to black…

We finish up today’s Great Job, Internet! tour of the Twitter bot world—the first two entries in our little series…

The rise of Twitter has led to the headline-ification of global knowledge, because no matter how vast or complex an…

Today on the Great Job, Internet! desk, we’re going to feature a few artificially intelligent luminaries from the…