Thursday, May 05, 2011

Influencing Twitter through Twitter robots

In the recent Atlantic, Andy Isaacson reports on an experiment to create Twitter bots, and the results. As the report says: "Can one person controlling an identity, or a group of identities, really shape social architecture? Actually, yes."

The report is brief, and gives examples. Presumably, the same thing could be done through Facebook.

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