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, ...

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.

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 ...

When Elon Musk took over Twitter, he said getting rid of spam bots was a priority. But data seen by the WSJ suggests he hasn't made much progress so far. As part of this war on bots, Musk says you'll ...

The Israeli marketing security firm CHEQ says that at least 15% of Chinese Twitter accounts are likely to be bots. CHEQ’s security platform identifies and filters out invalid traffic (such as bots) ...

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 ...

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Musk agreed to buy Twitter on April 25 and first said the Twitter deal was “temporarily on hold” while he evaluated the bot issue on May 13 — about a month before the SEC’s letter to the company. On ...

Time to put your money where your mouth is. As Women's History Month begins, a Twitter account is calling out British businesses for pay discrepancies between male and female workers. The automated ...