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05-06-2023 TECH New research: Twitter bot detection tools aren’t very good When is a bot not a bot? When it likes a tweet, according to a new paper poking holes in bot detection methodology.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk engaged in a high-profile Twitter spat with the creator of Dogecoin this week, saying that the Australian memecoin founder was a "tool." Earlier this week, Dogecoin creator ...
A bot account sent mean notes to users who posted their Wordle score — and it also revealed the next day's answer. It was suspended for violating Twitter's rules.
Twitter runs a "dick pic bot" that scans the platform for not-safe-for-work posts, according to a tweet by the social media company's owner, Elon Musk.
Elon Musk's proposed $44 billion purchase of Twitter appears to be wobbling, with the billionaire raising concerns about the number of inauthentic accounts, or bots, on the social media platform ...
Starting today, everyone who is running a bot account on Twitter can add a label to make it clear the tweets are automated. The company started testing the label in September and is now rolling it ...