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Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/PxhXW_igDBA/researchers-discover-hundreds.html
Researchers discover hundreds of thousands of unsuspected, Star Wars-themed twitterbots hiding in plain sight
Twitter is a great place for bots. Botherders like Shardcore produce amazing, politics, artistic bots that mine Twitter, inject useful information into Twitter, or just frolic on Twitter, making it a better place. Twitterbots produce entries in imaginary grimoires, conduct sociological research, produce virtual model railroads, alert the public when governments try to make bad news disappear, and much, much more. (more…)
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