[ExI] twittebots?

[BillK]

On Wed, 10 Jun 2020 at 14:03, spike jones via extropy-chat
<extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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> It occurred to me that we could perhaps create twitterbots.  I don’t know how that service works; I have never used it.  But from what I can tell, the level of discourse there isn’t high, and patterns are easy to recognize.  We could perhaps create software which would generate tweets from any give point of view and create a massive tweetstorm.  For instance, we could have the twitterbots create tweets on the theme that vandalism is bad, or looting is bad, then generate them by the millions, or perhaps a few hundred on each account.
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> Perhaps this is already being done.  How do we know this stuff we hear about on twitter isn’t already software-generated?
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It has already been done.

See: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter_bot>
Quote:
Proper usage includes broadcasting helpful information, automatically
generating interesting or creative content, and automatically replying
to users via direct message. Improper usage includes
circumventing API rate limits, violating user privacy, spamming and
sockpuppeting.
Concerns about political Twitter bots include the promulgation of
malicious content, increased polarization, and the spreading of fake
news.
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BillK