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 — though this might be a low estimate. Some of these bots provide weather updates, make stock recommendations, or attempt to subvert democracy.*
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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, the creator of my
favorite Twitter bot,
NewFound Planets, told
Mashable. Bergquist is also the director of the public radio program
Science Friday.*
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