Automated Twitter accounts are responsible for a lot of spam, but there are exceptions. Twitter actually has some great bots that add helpful features, like adding color to photos, solving puzzles, ...

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Twitter, the platform formally known as X, has a bot problem. If you want to see just how bad it is, I’ll teach you the magic words that summon the machines. For the past year, Don Marti has been ...

Forget crypto spam accounts, Twitter's got another problem which involves bots and accounts promoting adult content and infiltrating Direct Messages and interactions on the platform. And there doesn't ...

Dozens of popular Twitter bots are losing API access after Elon Musk said there would be exceptions for "good" automated accounts. Credit: Mashable / Bob Al-Greene Another day, another Twitter ...

Some of them share traffic violations or simple photos of every NYC address. Others track secret payments or Wikipedia edits made by the NYPD. Perhaps the most important among them tells New Yorkers ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Twitter’s planned API changes hit one of its best features hard. Twitter’s planned API changes hit one of its ...

They’ve been alleged to have helped shift the course of the 2016 presidential election, and are a key component of Elon Musk’s ongoing attempts to wriggle out of his $44 billion purchase of Twitter.

A new paper suggests that the field of bot detection is based on a flawed premise due to poor-quality original data. The research, presented this week at the Web Conference (where it was awarded best ...

CHEQ, a cybersecurity company, discovered that about 12% of website traffic from Twitter to its approximately 15,000 clients is non-human. CHEQ's analysis of Twitter bot traffic -- looking at 5.2 ...