Re:Twitter to label 'good' bot accounts
by freeone3000 on Friday September 10, 2021 @09:40AM
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Most bots aren't marketing bots, they're sort of... Goofs, or utilities, or projects. Like @MyDudes_, which posts a picture of a frog every Wednesday. Or alttextbot, which if you follow it, DMs you when you've posted a picture without alt text. Or wwiiInRealTime. Or wintbot_neo, which is inexplicable outside of twitter but serves only comedic purpose.
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Re:Twitter to label 'good' bot accounts
by sigstoat on Friday September 10, 2021 @11:46AM
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> Most bots aren't marketing bots,
wouldn't you need to know how many marketing bots there are to determine that?
making statements about goodbots/(goodbots+badbots) is difficult when the good bots already make it clear they're bots, and the bad bots are misleading.
Re:Twitter to label 'good' bot accounts
by CharlesW on Friday September 10, 2021 @01:14PM
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> Most bots aren't marketing bots, they're sort of... Goofs, or utilities, or projects.
In my experience those kinds of boutique/indie bots appear to make up a tiny percentage of total bots. If you have data that shows otherwise, I'd appreciate if you could share it.
Re:Twitter to label 'good' bot accounts
by freeone3000 on Friday September 10, 2021 @01:49PM
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They're the kind people engage with. There's obviously a lot more astroturfing and disinformation, but most corporate marketing on twitter is done by humans. Steak-Umm, Oreo, Microsoft, Wendy's, even indie game publishers have a human running their accounts.