When Dutch police responded to a death threat made by a local Twitter account, they discovered the culprit was nothing more than an automated bot.
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Good bot, bad bot? 23 million Twitter accounts are automated
Its latest SEC filing says that 8.5% of active monthly users are automatons, which could mean there are a boatload of bots on the service. Some are spam, some are useful, some are just publications’ own, automated Twitter feeds.