👓 Twitter robot purge | Nelson’s log

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Twitter purged a bunch of robot accounts this week as some sort of effort to clean up their platform. You can see the personal result for you by logging in to you’ll see the falloff. My perso…

👓 Does Donald Trump write his own tweets? Sometimes | The Boston Globe

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It’s not always Trump tapping out a tweet, even when it sounds like his voice.
I wonder how complicated/in-depth the applied information theory is behind the Twitter bot described here?

👓 A Twitter bot to find the most interesting bioRxiv preprints | Gigabase or gigabyte

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TLDR: I wrote a Twitter bot to tweet the most interesting bioRxiv preprints. Follow it to stay up to date about the most recent preprints which received a lot of attention. The past few months have…

👓 Real People Are Turning Their Accounts Into Bots On Instagram — And Cashing In | BuzzFeed

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Verified accounts turning themselves into bots, millions of fake likes and comments, a dirty world of engagement trading inside Telegram groups. Welcome to the secret underbelly of Instagram.
Eventually there will be so much noise on these platforms that they will cease to have any meaning for the business purposes that people are intending to use them for.

Worse, they’re giving away their login credentials to outsiders to do this.

🔖 A Twitter bot to find the most interesting bioRxiv preprints | Gigabase or gigabyte

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TLDR: I wrote a Twitter bot to tweet the most interesting bioRxiv preprints. Follow it to stay up to date about the most recent preprints which received a lot of attention. The past few months have…
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Warren Weaver Bot!

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This is the signal for the second.
How can you not follow this twitter account?!

Now I’m waiting for a Shannon bot and a Weiner bot. Maybe a John McCarthy bot would be apropos too?!