Comments on: Twitter spambots are getting smarter http://www.socialstartups.com/2009/08/21/twitter-spambots-are-getting-smarter/ All that's new in the social computing space. Thu, 22 Sep 2011 17:07:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: don http://www.socialstartups.com/2009/08/21/twitter-spambots-are-getting-smarter/comment-page-1/#comment-1349 don Sat, 22 Aug 2009 16:56:32 +0000 http://www.socialstartups.com/2009/08/21/twitter-spambots-are-getting-smarter/#comment-1349 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? 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?

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