Twitter spambots are getting smarter
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I made the bottom tweet yesterday. A network of spambots picked it up and have been repeating my tweet from different accounts at different intervals. It’s still going – 14 tweets from 14 different accounts! Just awful… if spambots can pass the Turing test, Twitter has big problems on their hands.
don said,
August 22, 2009 @ 8:56 am
Those spambots don’t come anywhere close to the Turing test. They don’t even pass the Parrot test (which doesn’t exist formally but I hereby claim eternal credit for inventing if it ever does): a parrot doesn’t really understand what it’s saying, but it’ll mix the words up a little to see what gets a reaction.
And I don’t understand this at all. Any insight into what the spammers hope to accomplish here? Any clue what about that tweet caught their attention?