OT - How do “Twitter Bots” work?

[Leeshouldveflanked]

Are people just sitting around creating numerous fake twitter accounts or are the accounts computer generated?

 

[Hump4Hoops]

Chinese and Russian troll farms mostly.

Created by people, run by scripts. Some state sponsored propaganda spreaders, some private entities sold for profit. They create thousands of real-ish looking fake accounts and use scripts to have them tweet, typically involving certain hashtags, phrases, and links.

 

[dorndawg]

Here's some reading:

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/06/05/study-russia-cybersecurity-twitter-1353543

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_web_brigades

https://www.vox.com/2018/10/19/17990946/twitter-russian-trolls-bots-election-tampering

 

[WilCoDawg]

Which are you: Chinese or Russian?

 

[Leeshouldveflanked]

Did Ole Miss learn from the Russians or did the Russians learn from Ole Miss?