Twitter, the platform formally known as X, has a bot problem. If you want to see just how bad it is, I’ll teach you the magic words that summon the machines. For the past year, Don Marti has been ...

Forget crypto spam accounts, Twitter's got another problem which involves bots and accounts promoting adult content and infiltrating Direct Messages and interactions on the platform. And there doesn't ...

Dozens of popular Twitter bots are losing API access after Elon Musk said there would be exceptions for "good" automated accounts. Credit: Mashable / Bob Al-Greene Another day, another Twitter ...

Twitter's new policies surrounding its application programming interface (API) have just gone into effect — and they will have broad implications for social media bots, both good (RSS integrations, ...

A new report identified hundreds of thousands of Twitter bots spewing hate on Joe Biden and Chuck Schumer, along with Mitch McConnell and Nikki Haley. Reading time 3 minutes Twitter has seen its share ...

More unusually, some of these bots are only responsive to tweets that contain the n-word, indicating that they seek out potential buyers through a crude form of racial profiling. The context in which ...