For some, the goal is increasing popularity. Last month, computer scientists from the Federal University of Ouro Preto in Brazil revealed that Carina Santos, a much-followed journalist on Twitter, was actually not a real person but a bot that they had created. Based on the circulation of her tweets, a commonly used ranking site, Twitalyzer, ranked Ms. Santos as having more online “influence” than Oprah Winfrey. nytimes/2013/08/11/sunday-review/i-flirt-and-tweet-follow-me-at-socialbot.html?_r=3&
Posted on: Mon, 26 Aug 2013 13:19:04 +0000