Twitter is certainly aware of this problem ... To manipulate the race, I used the same cartoon avatar for the bots’ profile picture and simply changed the skin color. Using a method that ...

“You’re a 10, but you need some help doing the work of repentance and accountability,” reads the tweet, which references a recent meme and is followed by the cartoon. Unlike some Twitter ...

The service is filled with bots and abuse ... Cornet pointed to a lack of vision. His cartoon from this era indicates Twitter’s priorities were vague, yet still accompanied by an urgency ...

Twitter actually has some great bots that add helpful features, like adding color to photos, solving puzzles, and taking screenshots of tweets. Here are seven of our favorites. Viral Twitter ...

Then, he seemed to waffle, claiming Twitter’s bot count is just too high. Twitter says bots – or fake accounts – make up about 5% of its’ “monetizable daily active users worldwide.” ...

Bots have become public enemy number one in recent years, and remain in the spotlight thanks to Twitter’s former head of security Peiter “Mudge” Zadko’s claims that the company’s ...

Twitter's unending fight against spam accounts is now a problem for new owner Elon Musk, who pledged in April to defeat the bot scourge or "die trying!" He later cited bots as a reason to back out ...

The bot has analyzed over 51,000 tweets in 18 languages Fynn Heintz, a software developer in Berlin, created the Alt Text Reader Twitter bot in 2018 after he saw other users express disappointment ...

and bots advertising sexual content and mentioning city names were active and pervasive on Twitter for at least several weeks before a deadly fire in the Chinese city of Urumqi set off the protests.

And there are good bots and bad. By Sheera Frenkel On Friday, the tech billionaire Elon Musk announced that he was terminating a $44 billion deal to buy Twitter. The reason, he said, was an ...