There’s no good way to ask people if they think Twitter will outlive them. I don’t mean any offense to Jack Dorsey and Co., but one must ask this awkward question when trying to find out programmers’ ...

For years it’s been obvious that online social services of all kinds are beset by a problem with bots. I work on a cybersecurity product that can go inline and literally watch bot traffic, and too ...

Almost a thousand Twitter accounts controlled by a large bot farm pushing Russian propaganda and domains used to register the bots were taken down in a joint international law enforcement operation ...

Cybara said it searched through Twitter for conversations surrounding Trump and the 2024 election. Of the posts that researchers identified as being pro-Trump, 64% were bots. Among those fake profiles ...

It was trained on the spookiest stories on the web, but human collaborators make its stories truly terrifying. R.I.P. @Horse_Ebooks, The Human-Run Twitter Bot That Fooled Us All @Horse_ebooks, the ...

Elon Musk’s $44 billion deal to buy Twitter (TWTR) is in purgatory. The brash Tesla (TSLA) CEO put the purchase on hold May 13, saying, on Twitter, of course, he couldn’t move forward with the ...

Twitter reports that fewer than 5% of accounts are fakes or spammers, commonly referred to as “bots.” Since his offer to buy Twitter was accepted, Elon Musk has repeatedly questioned these estimates, ...

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