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Re:Twitter Is Crawling with Bots and Lacks Incentive to Expe... by mv4 on Friday October 13, 2017 @04:49PM (#15469137)
Fun story: I once wrote a primitive Twitter bot as an experiment, and forgot about it. It's been running on a Raspberry Pi unattended for a few years now, tweeting random stuff and periodically "engaging" with a predefined set of topics.

It has a Klout score. It has more followers than me.

[edit: spelling]

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Re:Twitter Is Crawling with Bots and Lacks Incentive to Expe... by nasredin on Saturday October 14, 2017 @03:08PM (#15473682)
Do me a favor and check up on it once in a while.

If it becomes self-aware, we may have a problem.

I've seen this movie before somewhere...

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Re:Twitter Is Crawling with Bots and Lacks Incentive to Expe... by mv4 on Sunday October 15, 2017 @09:53AM (#15477111)
I need to make a kill switch of some kind.
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Re:Twitter Is Crawling with Bots and Lacks Incentive to Expe... by lucisferre on Saturday October 14, 2017 @11:39AM (#15472625)
I wonder how many are other bots? Also, Klout still exists?
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Re:Twitter Is Crawling with Bots and Lacks Incentive to Expe... by mv4 on Sunday October 15, 2017 @09:52AM (#15477107)
Millions.

Klout still exists, apparently. I don't see many people referencing it anymore though.

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