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Twitter Bot News Timeline (2009 – 2019)

Notes:

This is far from an exhaustive list of all historical Twitter bots. This is a list of the highlights over the past decade as noted by the popular press. Be aware “Twitter bots” can be different things to different people at different times. There is a range of different kinds automation, and semi-automation, referred to as “Twitter bots”. However, this list should prove a good source of inspiration for building any kind of bot, on any platform.

  • active bot
  • art-stealing bot
  • automated bot
  • bad bot
  • believable bot
  • best bot
  • bizarre amusing bot
  • bosch painting bot
  • bus bot
  • chat bot
  • chinese bot
  • clever bot
  • cognitive bot
  • desire bot
  • donald trump bot
  • fake bot
  • favorite bot
  • fun fearless bot
  • hilarious bot
  • joke bot
  • liberal bot
  • louis theroux bot
  • malicious bot
  • media bot
  • mindless bot
  • musical bot
  • new bot
  • news bot
  • official bot
  • pixel-mashing bot
  • political bot
  • poorly-built bot
  • pro-government bot
  • pro-russian bot
  • pro-trump bot
  • raunchy bot
  • researcher programmed bot
  • ridiculous bot
  • rogue fbi bot
  • russian-linked bot
  • russian bot
  • scientist-inspired bot
  • slate bot
  • social bot
  • statistics catch bot
  • suspected bot
  • thinkpiece bot
  • tinder bot
  • twitter follower bot
  • useful bot
  • villanelle-writing bot
  • viral bot
  • way bot
  • world bot
  • writing bot
  • yorker poetry bot

Wikipedia:

  • Fake news
  • Social bot
  • Twitter bot

References:

  • Chatbots Are a Danger to Democracy (2018)

See also:

100 Best Bhagavad Gita Twitter Bots | 100 Best Earthquake Twitter Bots | 100 Best GitHub: Twitterbot | 100 Best Twitter Bot Videos | 100 Best Twitter Bots


2019

  • Cannabis a cure for cancer, insomnia, claim Twitter bots … (28 Dec 2019)
  • Twitter bots are sharing unproven cannabis health claims … (27 Dec 2019)
  • Twitter bots spread white supremacist’s bogus story about … (20 Dec 2019)
  • Twitter bots spreading bogus claims about health benefits of … (19 Dec 2019)
  • Binance CEO Hilariously Exposed in Twitter-Bot Gaffe (15 Dec 2019)
  • Chinese Twitter bots are clearly fake, but they might still be … (9 Dec 2019)
  • New swarm of pro-China Twitter bots spreads information about Xinjiang (4 Dec 2019)
  • Artists attempt to pit art-stealing Twitter bots against trigger … (4 Dec 2019)
  • You can join the effort to expose Twitter bots (27 Nov 2019)
  • Russian Twitter bot study reveals a counterintuitive effect of … (26 Nov 2019)
  • Thousands of Twitter ‘bots’ targeted Kentucky with fake news … (11 Nov 2019)
  • Army of Twitter bots follow top politicians such as Nicola … (10 Nov 2019)
  • Monica Lewinsky’s new Twitter bot combats mean tweets with … (31 Oct 2019)
  • Twitter bot averages 74 tweets-per-day to combat abuse to … (31 Oct 2019)
  • It’s not easy to spot disinformation on Twitter. Here’s what we … (28 Oct 2019)
  • Fifty shades of sway: how one Twitter bot shows British voters … (23 Oct 2019)
  • Police Twitter bots will trawl social media to predict where hate … (20 Oct 2019)
  • Ripple Dispels XRP FUD Allegations, Q3 Report Blames … (19 Oct 2019)
  • Twitter bot combats negative tweets to female candidates (16 Oct 2019)
  • These New Scientist-inspired Twitter bots are surrealist art (12 Oct 2019)
  • YouTuber lets followers redecorate his bedroom via Twitter bot (10 Oct 2019)
  • This dude’s Twitter bot lets followers decorate his room (10 Oct 2019)
  • Fox News reduced to segments quoting anti-Clinton Twitter … (9 Oct 2019)
  • Quoted Replies: The viral Twitter bot built by a Nigerian (4 Oct 2019)
  • How malicious Twitter bots evolve to evade detection (2 Oct 2019)
  • Engineered-in-Edmonton Twitter bot combats misogyny on the … (30 Sep 2019)
  • Twitter Bots Are Trolling Climate Change Discussions … (17 Sep 2019)
  • Scant evidence of active Twitter bots as Canadian election … (11 Sep 2019)
  • Scant evidence of active Twitter bots as Canadian election nears (11 Sep 2019)
  • Taylor Swift reportedly threatened to sue Microsoft over racist … (10 Sep 2019)
  • Twitter ‘Bots’ Becoming More ‘Human,’ Will Influence 2020 … (9 Sep 2019)
  • Twitter Bots Are Becoming More Human-Like: Study (6 Sep 2019)
  • A Twitter bot randomly generated a UK/Ireland ‘United Ireland … (29 Aug 2019)
  • China Accused of Using Twitter Bots To Promote Disney’s … (22 Aug 2019)
  • Twitter Bots Are Being Used to Attack Sony Over Spider-Man (21 Aug 2019)
  • 200000 Chinese Twitter bots silenced over Hong Kong protests (20 Aug 2019)
  • Twitter Bot Hosts Never-Ending Jeopardy Game (15 Aug 2019)
  • Twitter bots emerge ahead of Canadian election, but influence … (12 Aug 2019)
  • Pro-Macri Twitter bots deliver final PASO scandal (9 Aug 2019)
  • New Twitter Bot Creates Emoji By Mixing Existing Ones (5 Aug 2019)
  • This Twitter Bot Mashes Up Emoji To Create Fresh Faces (24 Jul 2019)
  • New Twitter bot reminds users to capitalise Indigenous (22 Jul 2019)
  • Study: Twitter bots tried but failed to notably influence election … (22 Jul 2019)
  • Twitter Bots Were Actually Behind #TrudeauMustGo, Not Real … (19 Jul 2019)
  • Twitter bots boosted the trending #TrudeauMustGo hashtag (18 Jul 2019)
  • From Twitterbots to VR: 10 of the best examples of digital … (9 Jul 2019)
  • When The Times First Says It, This Twitter Bot Tracks It (7 Jul 2019)
  • This Twitter bot trolls people who’ve lost a ton of money on … (29 Jun 2019)
  • Younger’ Season 6 episode 3 Recap: Sex, Lies, and Twitter … (27 Jun 2019)
  • Researchers develop app to detect Twitter bots in any language (17 Jun 2019)
  • And now, a Twitter bot that collects phrases you can sing to … (17 Jun 2019)
  • App to detect Twitter bots in any language developed (14 Jun 2019)
  • How Twitter bots are stirring new divisions by ‘fishwrapping … (14 Jun 2019)
  • New application can detect Twitter bots in any language (13 Jun 2019)
  • Russian Twitter bots lay dormant for months before … (7 Jun 2019)
  • A Twitter bot that translates jungle sounds to existential … (2 May 2019)
  • Blackburn with Darwen Council ‘Twitter bot’ gets election … (1 May 2019)
  • Australian election targeted by Twitter bots (28 Apr 2019)
  • After Mueller report, Twitter bots pushed ‘Russiagate hoax … (23 Apr 2019)
  • Twitter bot activity spiked after the release of the Mueller Report (19 Apr 2019)
  • Twitter bot tracks abusive tweets against female politicians (13 Apr 2019)
  • Thousands of Russian-owned Twitter bots targeted Bernie … (12 Apr 2019)
  • This Twitter bot forecasts the weather with emoji (11 Apr 2019)
  • Twitter bots tweaking pre-election trends in India: US experts (9 Apr 2019)
  • Why a Yellowknife man created a Twitter bot that monitors … (25 Mar 2019)
  • Meghan Markle’s Twitter bot network: ‘The whole thing is a bit … (13 Mar 2019)
  • Ocasio-Cortez Deletes Tweet Baselessly Accusing Opponents … (22 Feb 2019)
  • The best new Twitter bot is an endless game of Jeopardy … (18 Feb 2019)
  • Toucher and Rich: David Pastafarian & Jim Gray Twitter Bots … (11 Feb 2019)
  • Twitter bots were more active than previously known during … (4 Feb 2019)
  • Tackling Twitter Bots With Biometrics (23 Jan 2019)
  • A Twitter bot is trying to fix DC’s parking problems (23 Jan 2019)
  • Meet The Raunchy Twitter Bot By Dogecoin Bringing Sexy … (18 Jan 2019)

2018

  • Netflix denies spreading ‘Bird Box’ memes with Twitter bots (updated) (29 Dec 2018)
  • Researchers show how data science techniques can find Twitter … (11 Dec 2018)
  • Additional Citizen-Attacking Twitter Bots Discovered (23 Nov 2018)
  • Relatively few’ Twitter bots were needed to spread misinformation and … (21 Nov 2018)
  • How Twitter bots get people to spread fake news (20 Nov 2018)
  • The Twitter bots that make the internet a little bit nicer (14 Nov 2018)
  • Twitter Bot Scandal Just Another Chapter in Eugene Melnyk’s … (14 Nov 2018)
  • This Bosch painting Twitter bot is great meme material (11 Nov 2018)
  • How Bots Are Hijacking the Political Conversation Just Before the … (5 Nov 2018)
  • Congress caught using Twitter bots (4 Nov 2018)
  • How Twitter bots and internet trolls sow racial and political division in SA (3 Nov 2018)
  • Twitter study finds coordinated pattern in vote-fraud posts (3 Nov 2018)
  • Twitter’s Bot Problem Still Seems as Bad as Ever (1 Nov 2018)
  • Not all Twitter bots are bad (26 Oct 2018)
  • Twitter’s bot purge led to a 9M drop in users last quarter (25 Oct 2018)
  • How to track trolls in your feed during the 2018 US midterms (23 Oct 2018)
  • Twitter pulls down bot network that pushed pro-Saudi talking points … (19 Oct 2018)
  • Millions of exposed tweets by Russian bots highlight how much trash … (19 Oct 2018)
  • Star Wars Writer Chuck Wendig’s Twitter Appears to Have Been … (19 Oct 2018)
  • Bad blood: Twitter bot reports Trump has unfollowed Cohen (18 Oct 2018)
  • Your favorite Twitter bots are about die, thanks to upcoming rule … (16 Oct 2018)
  • See Exactly How Fake Your Twitter Followers Are (8 Oct 2018)
  • Ahead of Brazil’s election, Twitter bot Fátima spreads fact-checked … (5 Oct 2018)
  • Twitter Bots Are Working to Suppress Voter Turnout to Stop … (27 Sep 2018)
  • This Twitter bot creates hilarious new Kitchen Nightmares plot-lines (19 Sep 2018)
  • Elon Musk Gets Help From Dogecoin Creator Against Twitter Bots (17 Sep 2018)
  • Twitter bots more influential than people in US election: research (14 Sep 2018)
  • Twitter bots were 2.5 times more effective than humans in US … (13 Sep 2018)
  • This Twitter Bot Will Tell You if a Login Page is Phishing (13 Sep 2018)
  • Twitter Bots Had More Influence Than Humans During The 2016 … (13 Sep 2018)
  • Twitter bots were twice as influential as humans during US … (13 Sep 2018)
  • Australian scientists say Twitter bots were highly influential during the … (12 Sep 2018)
  • This Twitter Bot Finds the Worst Drivers in DC (10 Sep 2018)
  • Building a Twitter news bot using Twitter API [Tutorial] (7 Sep 2018)
  • Why automated art by creative Twitterbots is not all fake (5 Sep 2018)
  • Twitter bots shared #forFairness and #SNPcivilwar posts following … (2 Sep 2018)
  • Sweden: Twitter bots have doubled ahead of elections (30 Aug 2018)
  • Republicans who follow liberal Twitter bots actually become more … (30 Aug 2018)
  • SafeGuard Cyber Releases Detailed Investigation into Russian Twitter … (30 Aug 2018)
  • Twitter Bots Are Multiplying to Target the Swedish Election (29 Aug 2018)
  • Russian Twitter bots spread false vaccine information – study (28 Aug 2018)
  • Scammers Threaten to Review Bomb a Travel Company Unless it … (28 Aug 2018)
  • How Twitter Bots and Sock Puppets attack pro-independence women (27 Aug 2018)
  • Manufacturing Consent: Saudi and Amazon Deploy Twitter Bots to … (26 Aug 2018)
  • Twitter bots, Russian trolls pollute vaccine ‘debate’ online (24 Aug 2018)
  • ShareBlue editor brands Twitter bot swarm accusation a conspiracy … (23 Aug 2018)
  • Duo Security hunts Twitter Bots (13 Aug 2018)
  • Ridding the World of Twitter Bots, One Network at a Time (10 Aug 2018)
  • Researchers Find 15K Twitter Crypto Scam Giveaway Bots (9 Aug 2018)
  • Twitter’s New Developer Rules Might End One of Its Most Enjoyable … (8 Aug 2018)
  • Researchers Inadvertently Discover Crypto Scam Involving 15000 … (7 Aug 2018)
  • Twitter ‘bots’ crackdown sweeps up Trump supporters who tweet very … (6 Aug 2018)
  • Switched to vaping because it is safe? Blame Twitter bots for … (6 Aug 2018)
  • How to Spot a Russian Bot (1 Aug 2018)
  • Which Companies Lost the Most Fake Followers In the Twitter Bot … (1 Aug 2018)
  • Saudi Arabia’s Twitter bot army fails to hijack Qatar emir’s UK visit (23 Jul 2018)
  • Russian Twitter bots reportedly rallied around Moscow’s push to … (20 Jul 2018)
  • How to get caught buying drugs on Venmo: This Twitter bot (19 Jul 2018)
  • Data analysis: The brand impact of Twitter’s bot cull (19 Jul 2018)
  • This Twitterbot keeps you up-to-date on fires burning near you (18 Jul 2018)
  • How social media bots became an influential force in Africa’s elections (18 Jul 2018)
  • Twitter bot purge: 8 million fake followers ditched (17 Jul 2018)
  • Twitter’s bot purge welcomed by agency execs (15 Jul 2018)
  • War of the Twitter Bots (13 Jul 2018)
  • Trump wants Twitter to delete the New York Times’s and the … (7 Jul 2018)
  • Fifty Shades of Blockchain: Meet Dogecoin Creator’s Erotic, ICO … (7 Jul 2018)
  • Twitter swung the ban hammer 70 million times in the last two months (6 Jul 2018)
  • Twitter Bot Busts Bike Lane Scofflaws in Real Time (29 Jun 2018)
  • Twitter bots, disassemble (28 Jun 2018)
  • A Twitter bot is unmasking ICE detention centers across the US (27 Jun 2018)
  • A Twitter Bot Is Posting the Names and Locations of Immigrant … (26 Jun 2018)
  • Hoaxy: Twitter bot-spotter tracks spread of dodgy news (13 Jun 2018)
  • Motherboard Made a Bot That Archives Tweets on Demand (12 Jun 2018)
  • These 2 bots stuck in a loop with each other is Twitter at its finest (8 Jun 2018)
  • Twitter bots, fake news and propaganda in the Qatar crisis (4 Jun 2018)
  • Pro-Trump Twitter bots are ‘laundering’ the news, expert says (23 May 2018)
  • This Twitter Bot Is Generating Jokes and It’s Funnier Than You (22 May 2018)
  • Twitter Bots Helped Trump and Brexit Win, Economic Study Says (21 May 2018)
  • This Twitter bot invents the most heinous flavors of Fanta ever (21 May 2018)
  • This Fun And Fearless Twitter Bot Invents New Fanta Flavors Every Hour (21 May 2018)
  • How the world’s first Twitter bot helped London’s commuters on the go (9 May 2018)
  • Large scale Twitter bot farm targeting Londoners (8 May 2018)
  • Russian Twitter bots: Menace to democracy – or overhyped distraction? (4 May 2018)
  • Twitter Bots Cryptocurrency Impersonation Scam Nets $1500 (4 May 2018)
  • Twitter Has a Big Problem in Southeast Asia: Bots Before the Ballot in … (3 May 2018)
  • Twitter Vague on Action as Bot Army Idles (3 May 2018)
  • Russian Twitter ‘bots’ attempted to influence election by supporting … (28 Apr 2018)
  • Immortalize Your Terrible Tweets on the Blockchain for the Low, Low … (26 Apr 2018)
  • Innovative Ways Brands Can Use Twitter Bots to Revolutionize … (24 Apr 2018)
  • Twitter bots are bad…unless they’re pushing the ‘right’ narrative? (24 Apr 2018)
  • Attack of the Twitter bots (23 Apr 2018)
  • Twitter doesn’t care that someone is building a bot army in Southeast … (20 Apr 2018)
  • Someone’s Building a Twitter Bot Army in Thailand (20 Apr 2018)
  • Russia spread fake news via Twitter bots after Salisbury poisoning … (19 Apr 2018)
  • Do Twitter Bots Steer Users To Politically Extreme Websites? [Updated] (12 Apr 2018)
  • Bots in the Twittersphere (9 Apr 2018)
  • Twitter bots are getting busy making sure your tweet goes viral (9 Apr 2018)
  • Twitter bots manipulating stock markets as fake news spreads to finance (31 Mar 2018)
  • How Twitter Bots Help Fuel Political Feuds (27 Mar 2018)
  • California Lawmakers Want Twitter Bots Branded With Disclaimers (23 Mar 2018)
  • Watch: Time-lapse video of every Seattle sunset, created by … (19 Mar 2018)
  • These white-hat Twitter bots collaborate to solve chemistry problems (16 Mar 2018)
  • Hackers Are So Fed Up With Twitter Bots They’re Hunting Them Down … (16 Mar 2018)
  • Twitter bots are now trying to tip the scales in local elections (12 Mar 2018)
  • The Big, Bad Bot Problem (8 Mar 2018)
  • A Credible Proposition (8 Mar 2018)
  • Scientists prove that truth is no match for fiction on Twitter (8 Mar 2018)
  • Oscars scams ran wild thanks to Twitter bots (5 Mar 2018)
  • Students Build Program That Sniffs Out Twitter ‘Bots’ | Voice of America … (4 Mar 2018)
  • Twitter Cracks Down on Bot Abuse (1 Mar 2018)
  • Russian-linked Twitter bots unleashed fake tweets after school … (23 Feb 2018)
  • Twitter is (finally) cracking down on bots (22 Feb 2018)
  • Trump Furious After Twitter’s Bot Purge Leaves Him with Fourteen … (21 Feb 2018)
  • Newsweek Retracts Story on Al Franken Twitter Bot Conspiracy Theory (21 Feb 2018)
  • Pro-Trump Russian Twitter Bots Targeted By Robert Mueller Also … (20 Feb 2018)
  • Was Al Franken the victim of a Twitter bot conspiracy? (20 Feb 2018)
  • Twitter bot offers a rare look inside the Darwin’s forgotten first … (15 Feb 2018)
  • No one can tell Russian bots from average trolls on Twitter, and that’s … (14 Feb 2018)
  • Bitcoin SCAM warning: Twitter bots impersonate Elon Musk and … (10 Feb 2018)
  • An ancient video-gaming mystery has been solved, thanks to a Twitter … (9 Feb 2018)
  • A BC woman spotted a Twitter bot, and the face staring back was hers (7 Feb 2018)
  • Why social media companies won’t kill off bots (6 Feb 2018)
  • How to Block Your Fake Followers (6 Feb 2018)
  • How Twitter bots are recycling Cold War techniques to sow political … (5 Feb 2018)
  • Twitter’s Bot Problem Is Worse Than You Think (5 Feb 2018)
  • How Twitter Bots and Trump Fans Made #ReleaseTheMemo Go Viral (4 Feb 2018)
  • Fake follower’ factory Devumi denies NYT exposé on shady practices (2 Feb 2018)
  • How to Find Out If a Twitter Bot Is Impersonating You Online (1 Feb 2018)
  • Twitter’s huge bot problem is out of the bag (1 Feb 2018)
  • Podcast: The Twitter bot economy (1 Feb 2018)
  • Why Are So Many Israeli Politicians Backed By Twitter Bots? (29 Jan 2018)
  • The Follower Factory (29 Jan 2018)
  • Twitter bots are stealing social media identities for profit (29 Jan 2018)
  • Russian bots retweeted Trump nearly 500000 times in final weeks of … (27 Jan 2018)
  • This Twitter bot tells you if your crush likes you, and it’s freaking genius (24 Jan 2018)
  • Q&A: Max Bittker’s Twitter Bot Tracks New Words in The New York Times (22 Jan 2018)
  • Twitter admits far more Russian bots posted on election than it had … (20 Jan 2018)
  • The 8 Twitter bots that all political junkies need to follow (17 Jan 2018)
  • This Twitter Bot Finds Sellers Who Know What They Have (7 Jan 2018)
  • This bot unrolls Twitter threads and turns them into readable blog posts (4 Jan 2018)

2017

  • Don’t trust Twitter bots! They offer health advice that’s not backed by science
  • Pekka Haavisto campaign concerned over suspected Twitter bots
  • Twitter bots and ‘satire’ news sites spread Alabama ‘vote fraud’ story hoping to overturn Doug Jones victory
  • Here’s how Russia uses Twitter bots to spread fear and division after terrorist attacks: study
  • Fianna Fáil TD James Lawless wants legislation to crack down on fake Twitter bots
  • Twitter bots boost backlash against Russia’s ban from Winter Olympic Games
  • Not the Bots We Were Looking For
  • New AI Writes Horror Stories in Collaboration with Humans
  • This Louis Theroux Twitter Bot Randomly Generates Documentaries And They All Sound Incredible
  • A Bot That Makes Trump’s Tweets Presidential
  • What it Means to Be an ‘Experimental Computer Poet’
  • Twitter bot’s ‘Glitch Art’ is a digital impressionist dream
  • The most shocking, insightful ocean conservation solutions, as presented by a poorly-built Twitter bot.
  • Congress is investigating how Twitter bots may have influenced the US election
  • This Russian Hacker Says His Twitter Bots Are Spreading Messages To Help Germany’s Far Right Party In The Election
  • Twitter bots can promote good behaviour, not just fake news
  • Twitter bots created to sing songs of peace
  • Read through the CIA’s history one day at a time with @TodayInCIA
  • The Chicagoan behind a Twitter bot that tracks Trump donations
  • How socialbots are the masters of manipulation
  • Delissio has a new automated Twitter bot that will answer your pizza questions
  • How a Bot Army Probably Got Me Kicked Off Twitter
  • Twitter Bots Use Likes, RTs for Intimidation
  • Neo-Nazi Bitcoin Transactions Made Public by Twitter Bot
  • Pro-Russian Bots Take Up the Right-Wing Cause After Charlottesville
  • New AI Writes Horror Stories in Collaboration with Humans
  • Bot armies of fake followers are the footsoldiers of fake news
  • How to spot a Twitter bot
  • University of Texas-led Research Project Tackles Fake News with Social Bots
  • Russian State TV Discovered Using Twitter Bots to Pose as Viewers
  • Twitter Bot Replaces “God” in Joel Osteen’s Tweets with “Your Dick,” God Responds
  • 6 Bots That Deliver Science and Serendipity on Twitter
  • NPR Gives Twitter Bot $1,000 To Play Stocks Based On Trump Tweets
  • Did Russia Delete Its Twitter Mob?
  • How Russian Twitter Bots Pumped Out Fake News During The 2016 Election
  • How an army of Twitter bots almost created a major political pundit
  • Introducing the New Yorker Poetry Bot
  • ‘Cyborg’ Twitter accounts see conservative voices dominate around the clock
  • Tutorial: How to set up a Twitter bot using R
  • Twitter launches Black History Month chatbot
  • The US rejected a ship of Jewish refugees, and a Twitter bot is telling their stories
  • Researchers Uncover Twitter Bot Army That’s 350,000 Strong
  • We Built A Twitter Bot That Replies To People Who Share Fake News

2016

  • Harassed Jewish Journalist Creates Twitter Bot to Troll the Trolls
  • Georgia becoming capital of fake Twitter accounts
  • This researcher programmed bots to fight racism on Twitter. It worked.
  • How Twitter bots helped Donald Trump win the US presidential election
  • The Political Twitter Bots Will Rage This Election Day
  • Twitter Chatbot Introduction Perfect Platform For Customer Service
  • Rogue FBI Twitter Bot dumps months of FOIAs, causing controversy
  • Battling Bad Bots: UNM researchers work to keep Twitter real
  • Donald Trump Twitter Bot Announces Candidacy for President
  • The Musical Twitter Bot: Who Has the Copyright for AI-Facilitated Works?
  • This Twitter bot is tracking dictators’ flights in and out of Geneva
  • This Twitter bot tricks angry trolls into arguing with it for hours
  • Twitter ramps up chat bot offering for advertisers through software developed by Aussie agency
  • Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are both spending money to advertise to Twitter bots
  • Can You Clone Yourself on Twitter?
  • This Bot Tries to Empathise With Your Emotional Tweets
  • This Bot Tweets a Totally Fantastical Map Every Hour
  • There’s a Twitter bot tweeting out the entire Chilcot report
  • A Twitter Bot Is Beating Trump Fans
  • Want free Uber rides? Build a Twitter bot like this guy did

2015

  • Slate’s Seven Favorite Twitter Bots of 2015
  • This guy built a bot to expose dead start-ups
  • How Twitter Bots Turn Tweeters into Activists
  • Twitter bot to counter cyberbullying with positivism
  • 5 countries that use bots to spread political propaganda
  • Practical Natural Language Processing for Determining Wifi Quality in Hostels
  • PSA: Now, a Twitter bot to fill your feed with the Internet’s oldest pages
  • We let Twitter’s Thinkpiece Bot take over our newsroom
  • A Villanelle-Writing Twitter Bot Is The Stuff Of Poetry-Lover Dreams
  • Meet the Twitter Bot Generating Unnervingly Plausible Think Pieces
  • Pro-Government Twitter Bots Try to Hush Mexican Activists
  • Twitter Bot Automatically Generates Trippy Glitch Art
  • Introducing censusAmericans, A Twitter Bot For America
  • Twitter Bot Generates Stunning New Species Of Moths
  • This Twitter bot will school you on how to talk about transgender people
  • 52 Bots: A small mechanical menagerie
  • The bots are coming for your tweets
  • Twitter bot will tweet your salary to help you fight the pay gap
  • Explorations in outreach – Creating a Twitter bot for the Neotoma Paleoecological Database
  • Alt Text Bot Image Descriptions FTW
  • Twitter Bots: Appropriation, Iteration, Recontextualization
  • Social Network Analysis Reveals Full Scale of Kremlin’s Twitter Bot Campaign
  • How I Replaced My Colleagues With A Mindless Twitter Bot
  • Realtor board’s Twitter bot answers housing stat questions
  • Is Twitter the Next Gaming Platform?
  • Bot or Not?
  • Edmontonian creates Twitter bot that suggests Edmonton Public Library media based on hot topics
  • Add brilliance to our gunners! Digital artist asks why we laugh at North Korea
  • Police questioned this dude because his Twitter bot made a ‘death threat’
  • Desire Bot: A Twitter Bot That Re-Posts What the World Wants
  • 8 Ways Twitter Bots Are Actually Helping Us

2014

  • Build a cognitive Twitter bot powered by Watson
  • Quotebot,a clever twitter bot powered by Python
  • A classroom experiment in Twitter Bots and creativity
  • Scripting Twitter: Collecting Data and Writing Bots
  • Social Media Bots Offer Phony Friends and Real Profit
  • How to make a Happy Cyborg Twitter bot
  • Slave Sales on Twitter
  • So Many Twitter Bots
  • Can Twitter Bots Improve Online Learning?
  • How Twitter will power the Internet of Things
  • This is what happens when two pixel-mashing bots get in a Twitter fight
  • What a Twitter bot taught this Philly designer about loneliness
  • Introducing Tweet-a-Program
  • Rise of the museum Twitter bots
  • The GBLab created a Twitterbot for updates on neurogenetics scientific literature
  • 6 Twitter Bots That Do What Journalists Can’t
  • 5 Twitter Bots You Should Be Following
  • Twitter Refutes Report That 23 Million Active Users Are Bots
  • Twitter bot will monitor government Wikipedia changes
  • Twitter bots grow up and take on the world
  • Five Steps To Build Your Own Random Non-Sequitur Twitter Bot
  • How Twitter Bots Fool You Into Thinking They Are Real People
  • From Tinder Bots To ‘Cuban Twitter’, Welcome To ‘Cognitive Hacking’
  • Turkey’s Leader Bans His Own Twitter Bot Army
  • How to build your own Twitter bot army
  • The botmaker who sees through the Internet

2013

  • Twitter Is Battling An Army Of Fake Accounts Run By A Bot-Master In Las Vegas
  • The Rise of Twitter Bots
  • Statistics catch Twitter bots in the act
  • Fake It ‘Til You Make It: A Basic Bot Primer For The Aprogrammatic
  • How to make a Twitter bot
  • Twitter ‘Joke Bots’ Shame Human Sense of Humor
  • On the Internet, no one knows you’re a bot. And that’s a problem.
  • The Type Of People Who Get Suckered By A Twitter Bot
  • Gaming Twitter: How one man turns fake followers into windfall profits
  • Can you buy Twitter legitimacy? A look inside the fake follower business
  • Meet The Twitter Bot That Can Answer All Your Questions

2012

  • Twitter Bots Fight It Out to See Who’s the Most Human
  • Twitter bots, twitter bots, twitter bots, folks
  • fly tweet
  • I Bought 27,000 Twitter Followers
  • Twitter bots I have known and loved
  • A Six-Legged Robot Spider That Tweets Isolated, Lonely Thoughts
  • Fakes & Hacks on Twitter
  • Inside the Real Economy Behind Fake Twitter Accounts
  • Who’s That Woman In The Twitter Bot Profile?
  • Mitt Romney suspiciously gets 116K Twitter followers in one day
  • Cats, whales and empty seats: The best nonhuman Twitter feeds
  • Statistical Probability That Mitt Romney’s New Twitter Followers Are Just Normal Users: 0%
  • The short but sweet life of @Sponsbot
  • 5 Signs You Follow a Twitter Bot
  • My Twitter Bot has more Klout than I do
  • Don’t Block These 10 Hilarious Twitter Bots
  • Don’t Fear the Weavr: Grow Your Own Emoting, Autonomous Twitter Bot
  • Man Builds Twitter Bot That Humans Actually Like
  • Twitter Mischief Plagues Mexico’s Election
  • This Bot Turns Your Tweets into Rhyming Couplets
  • Gorgeous girls gone undercover: How Twitter ‘bots’ work
  • The Definitive List of Bizarre and Amusing Twitter Bots
  • Twitter Bots Target Tibetan Protests
  • When’s My Bus twitter bot is awesome
  • Twitter Bot Sends You Menus and Phone Numbers of Restaurants
  • 9 Completely Ridiculous Twitter Bots
  • Hatsune Miku Gets Pork Dumpling Twitter Bot Figures
  • 10 Twitter Bot Services to Simplify Your Life

2011

  • ICanStalkU twitterbot nags Twitter users about disclosing their location
  • Twitter Bots Drown Out Anti-Kremlin Tweets
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2010

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