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Re:Twitter Is Crawling with Bots and Lacks Incentive to Expe... by mv4 on Friday October 13, 2017 @04:37PM (#15469068)
Bots can be useful. Good bots (ones that don't pretend to be humans or ones that don't fake human engagement) should be allowed and regulated.

The bad ones though ruin the experience for everyone (and defraud advertisers).

I've previously attempted to classify bots somewhat:

https://medium.com/@iTrendTV/dumb-bots-have-ruined-twitter-s...

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