Unhappy Rogue Twitter Bots

Qolfera | Published On: March 17, 2018

Today, when I open my Twitter account, the hashtags for purging internet bots are bleeding for loosing a large number of followers: Twitter deleted up to a million fake accounts just this past month January, 2018, the New York Daily News reported. I decided to create this bot related article to widen our eyes about it, to increase our magnification ability.
"Bots Are All About Bots And More Bots," are these software based bots can be a loyal friend or could be humans' worst enemy? | Here

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Bots, short for "robots," is an automatic software program that copies human behavior on social networking sites. It is composed of artificial intelligence, text mining, and data analysis software. This bot do have abilities in accessing to a collection of data in general information also events that are trending allowing them to recognize references to craft convincing messages.

Basically for software based bots there are chatbot and socbot.

ChatBot, talkbot, chatterbot, IMbot, interactive agent - can be found on online dating sites, a text based bot.

Whilst, bots on social media, social bot, or socbot - usually seen on different kinds of social media networking platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, MySpace, so on and so forth.

Bots randomly send messages rather than at regular schedules, these are created for a specific purposes for various forms of marketing for instance in advertising, public relations, or in campaigns.

Did you experience a slow speed on internet during peak of national elections?, this is just one of the cons of these social bots, other worst things that it could do are influencing biased-based public opinion, data theft, infecting websites, and an embarrassment for those conned but others really don't.

If your a computer developer, able to write and read computer language on these platforms, this where you can create you free bot app:
- Kik

Red flags to identify a bot:
1. Giving you an instant, a super fast, reply.
2. Not speaking naturally, always in full, complete sentences, inordinate amounts of acronyms, slanged words, and emojis.
3. Repeating the same message, bots do have limited responses.
4. Bots' say they don't speak well in your language.
5. Weird placement of syntax, ie. two spaces or punctuation marks, on the message.
6. Disguised sales pitch, promoting some form of brand.
7. Sending a link unasked oftenly seen on dating apps or forums.
8. Asking for personal or financial information.

Nets to bait a bot:
1. Asking them about 'themselves' or throwing weird questions.
2. Use the power of saying these onomatopoeia  'Um...', 'hmmm', and 'uh-huh' fairly can make the bot confused.
3. Use of sarcasm expecting that a bot will respond to it literally.
4. Talk things currently trending in the world.
5. Keep asking why, and the bot will get confused.

Five major types of AIs / virtual assistants:
1. Smart Automation Continues - programmed and precised machines from household to industrial applications.
2. Conversational AI or the chatbots, ie. Apple's Siri, Google Assistant, Amazon's Alexa, and Microsoft's Cortana, perform best for people in isolated environment.
3. Autonomous AIs, a virtual assistant programmed to learn from each and every interaction, help you in scheduling tasks and pitches round the clock.
4. IoT, Internet of Things, are a household to office type of digital devices, from a security camera to a coffee maker AIs.

For a wide-range list (GitHub) of Bots applications.

Bots | Facts:
'BotOrNot' a bot detection technology to spot those fake Twitter followers from real.

'Tay', a Microsoft's bot released via Twitter on March 2016, caused an alarm in the Twitter community for swearing and making racist remarks and inflammatory political statements.

"Carina Santos," Twitter social bot, a fake blonde journalist made from Federal University of Ouro Preto, Brazil that able to outranked Oprah Winfrey.

"TextGirlie," a chatbot scammer impersonating women, tricking as a hottie lady on the chatroom, spending its time on men's adult website to set a quick online dating schemes.

As of September 2017, Facebook Messenger developers have created 100,000 bots for Messenger alone in the first year of the Messenger Platform.

CAPTCHA, an acronym for "Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart", an estimate of 10-secs distorted puzzle, invented in 1997, which usually seen on websites  for security purposes to ascertain that the 'entity' visiting the site is not a bot, just to scrape information or mine data. How to place a CAPTCHA on my site? Here.

As much I'd like to make this page to be monetization type of article using ideas of bots it may sound shady, somehow a rogue, a lot had been able to make money already and fame due to the abilities of these (software) bots, however its not all this artificially-intelligent created entities that we are abusing instead ourselves can lead us to be more confined, think of it. Perhaps you have some bargains or an acquiescence email me at qolfera@gmail.com.


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