006 | Twitter Bots | Escape and Control

Jon Ronson visits web analyst Tim Hwang (Web Ecology Project), who along with his colleagues has developed bots for the social media service Twitter. The bots generate random tweets in an experiment to see if they could steer the conversation amongst real human tweeters.

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[mikeyspikey123456789]

@davaun1 Lol u virused bro?

[MichealMcNanner]

horse_ebooks

[Redflowers9]

troll bot... lmfao

[TheOsaka1337]

The spammer bots that advertise, spam with scams. *bzzzt*

My favorite bot is @_Spell. :3

[ShutUpAndOutNow]

"baby don't hurt me, don't hurt me, no more"

these people are retards

[jesusboner]

Sara from College Humor @ 4:10

[soundslave]

Brynns followers must all feel like complete tossers when they watch this vid. Thankfully I'm not a sad twitter user.

[00cm]

@davaun1 They're more afraid of you than you are of them.

[davaun1]

GEEKS



[socraticgadfly]

Scary to think of how the for-profit business world is likely to run with this. SEO-ing Twitter, or the equivalent thereof. Like the old Eliza program ramped up and updated.