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I've had a Twitter bot running for just over a year now. It's going to gain it's 6000th Follower at some point today.
I find it odd that an automated account I made has more Followers than all of my human accounts across all social networks combined - a lot more. I like to wonder about my bot Followers, how many of them are bots? How many of them are real and feel an actual connection with "me" and look forward to my Tweets, blissfully unaware that it's a bot?

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  • 3
    7y
    Twitter weeds out bot/spam accounts, I once had over 150 followers for my fairly reccent account https://twitter.com/legionfrontier, it got weeded to 24 now
  • 1
    7y
    @legionfrontier I do see the numbers drop ever so slightly sometimes, I guess these are the obvious bots being removed. The rest must be a combination of humans and more sophisticated bots slipping under the radar
  • 1
    7y
    Let just show you something here
    @RandomQuote
  • 2
    7y
    It has 5.4k ++
  • 2
    7y
    @PrivateGER Hahaha that's awesome. My bot Retweets and Likes tweets from an array of interests that I have given it. And also Retweets random quotes from my quote bot.
  • 2
    7y
    @Nanos Apparently "automated Tweeting for novelty value" is allowed in the T&Cs. Some functions of my bot may be in violation. However I don't excessively spam or harass and there's definitely worse bots than mine out there. I've gradually added more and more feaures to it as time has gone on, expecting to be taken down at any time... But here we are a year later
  • 1
    7y
    @Nanos but games are a display of skill, who would want to play vs a bot? Ai bots have existed in video games for a long time (think of cod's bots),but mixing bots with players would be unfair.
  • 0
    7y
    @Nanos that's a great point. As a hardcore competitive bf3 player, I can see why people might want a break from public games in favour of bots. I actually spent many hours farming bots on COD BO2 just because it was casual and fun. 😊
  • 0
    7y
    @Nanos sounds very interesting and I certainly agree with the last statement. Drm is a pain and in my opinion, I should pay what I feel the game is worth, not what I'm told it's worth. Many games coming from big companies like ea and ubisoft these days don't even run well and simply aren't worth £40. I pirate most games, and then buy the ones I enjoyed afterwards (when I have money eeek)
  • 0
    7y
    @Nanos wow that was very interesting and informative. I've never given ai much thought until now.
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