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Re:Twitter to label 'good' bot accounts by BoHerfIIIJrEsq on Friday September 10, 2021 @04:45AM (#28479140)
Earthquake updates, nobody cares about it. It's not controversial. Suppose there's a bot that responds to every comment with positive sentiment about ivermectin with "You are not a horse" with a link to WHO guidelines. Would Twitter call that a good bot or a bad bot?

Suppose there was a bot that responded to every suggestion that Trump called white supremacists "very fine people" with a link to a video showing he didn't. Would Twitter call that a good bot or a bad bot?

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Re:Twitter to label 'good' bot accounts by pjc50 on Friday September 10, 2021 @05:34AM (#28479384)
> responded to every

That's spam.

A fairly good non-partisan bot rule would be that bots would only respond when @'d, or just post updates to something on their own TL. e.g. https://twitter.com/choochoobot or https://twitter.com/bitsofjupiter

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Re:Twitter to label 'good' bot accounts by InGoodFaith on Friday September 10, 2021 @05:18AM (#28479300)
> Suppose there's a bot that responds to every comment with positive sentiment about ivermectin with "You are not a horse" with a link to WHO guidelines. Would Twitter call that a good bot or a bad bot?

It would not only be classified as a bad bot (if unsolicited), but it would violate Twitter's automation rules [0]

0: https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/twitter-autom...

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