For years it’s been obvious that online social services of all kinds are beset by a problem with bots. I work on a cybersecurity product that can go inline and literally watch bot traffic, and too ...

There’s no good way to ask people if they think Twitter will outlive them. I don’t mean any offense to Jack Dorsey and Co., but one must ask this awkward question when trying to find out programmers’ ...

Yahoo Finance tech editor Dan Howley discusses the potential impact of Twitter's alleged bot problem amid Elon Musk's comments. BRIAN SOZZI: The battle between Twitter and Elon Musk continues, as ...

The removals took place in September and October, during the contentious run-up to the 2018 midterm elections. The bots in question falsely appeared to be progressive or Democratic accounts; for ...

Twitter says it is taking new steps to cripple spam bots on its platform. Automated accounts and automated tweeting is allowed on Twitter generally — they’re how companies keep their feeds going at ...

X, formerly Twitter, will begin charging new users in New Zealand and the Philippines $1 annually as part of what the company called an anti-bot program. The idea of a paid subscription model was ...

Twitter engineer William Morgan is the real, live human behind the “highly experimental bot,” and yesterday it was made clear it’s not a Twitter product, but a “toy.” Morgan’s been discussing the bot ...

Everyone loves a good "Scorigami" -- in which a score of an NFL game that's never been put together before happens -- particularly on X (formerly Twitter). But as many fans noticed recently, the ...

One of the strangest experiences you can have on Twitter is to be retweeted by a Bot. Retweet Bots are scripts that search Twitter for tweets that mention a certain word or phrase and then ...