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12-31-2017, 07:13 AM
My favorite Twitter account is a bot
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Human Twitter accounts serve their purpose, but I prefer tweets from bots.
Research suggests there are now some 30 million tweeting bots (http://mashable.com/2017/10/16/twitter-bots-here-to-stay/) — though this might be a low estimate. Some of these bots provide weather updates, make stock recommendations, or attempt to subvert democracy.*
SEE ALSO: Here's how to tell if you're yelling at a bot on Twitter (http://mashable.com/2017/11/02/botcheck-california-students-twitter-fake-accounts-bots/)
I, however, like bots that aren't necessarily so useful nor ambitious. I look forward to their musings because their primary directive is to produce creative or absurd content — and I'm not alone.*
"I like anything that’s going to inject a little strangeness, beyond the normal strangeness that we have every day now," Charles Bergquist (https://twitter.com/cbquist), the creator of my favorite twitter bot, NewFound Planets (https://twitter.com/I_Find_Planets), told Mashable. Bergquist is also the director of the public radio program Science Friday.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/12/30/my-favorite-twitter-user-is-a-bot/)
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Human Twitter accounts serve their purpose, but I prefer tweets from bots.
Research suggests there are now some 30 million tweeting bots (http://mashable.com/2017/10/16/twitter-bots-here-to-stay/) — though this might be a low estimate. Some of these bots provide weather updates, make stock recommendations, or attempt to subvert democracy.*
SEE ALSO: Here's how to tell if you're yelling at a bot on Twitter (http://mashable.com/2017/11/02/botcheck-california-students-twitter-fake-accounts-bots/)
I, however, like bots that aren't necessarily so useful nor ambitious. I look forward to their musings because their primary directive is to produce creative or absurd content — and I'm not alone.*
"I like anything that’s going to inject a little strangeness, beyond the normal strangeness that we have every day now," Charles Bergquist (https://twitter.com/cbquist), the creator of my favorite twitter bot, NewFound Planets (https://twitter.com/I_Find_Planets), told Mashable. Bergquist is also the director of the public radio program Science Friday.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/12/30/my-favorite-twitter-user-is-a-bot/)
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