The link the bots are pushing directs to a channel on the encrypted messaging app Telegram, which hosts a bustling underground market for drugs and firearms. This particular channel has an ...

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 ...

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, ...

As Twitter's relationship with Elon Musk continues to fizzle, the platform aims to eliminate more than one million every day. To keep the platform a safe space for all users, the social media giant is ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

External app-makers, researchers, and bot programmers will have to pay up if they want to re-gain access to the platform's behind the scenes interface. Reading time 3 minutes Elon Musk’s Twitter has ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. When you think about Twitter bots, the first thing that might come ...

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 ...

Any minute now, the world’s richest man will either buy Twitter, tweet a poop emoji to the social media’s current CEO (yes, that really happened) or bring up the issue of a user-base bot count one ...