About three weeks ago, I started noticing that almost every time I opened up Twitter, the Notifications tab had that oh-so-nice blue dot, the reward for tweeting well done. The flag alerts users ...

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 ...

What are the methods twitter bots use to fool us, and what are some of the challenges in doing so? Hosted by: Olivia Gordon ...

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, ...

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 ...

Americans who seek political insight and information on Twitter should know how much of what they are seeing is the result of automated propaganda campaigns. Nearly four years after my collaborators ...

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