A lot of people probably didn’t know much about bots till Putin and his minions in Russia turned them loose to kill and destroy.
Haha okay, that was a bit wild, bots don’t literally kill and destroy, but they might as well, because what they actually do is influence and manipulate information on the internet mostly for negative motives.
Infact, in ‘Infrared’, when Pusha T said “The bigger question is how the Russians did it” (as regards, Trump’s election), you didn’t hear it from us, but they definitely used bots. *moonwalks away*
Anyway, identifying Twitter bots can be tricky, trust me, those little bastards are not that hard to recognise.
Here are some obvious signs that those follow notifications that are getting you excited might actually be Twitter bots.
1. They have no face, no profile picture or a generic picture
2. Spammy Twitter activities
3. They don’t make sense most of the time
4. Instantaneous (automated) response to one of your tweets
5. Mass following but relatively few followers