Meaning of Twitterbot | Babel Free

Definitions

A program used to produce automated posts on the microblogging service Twitter; by extension, a Twitter account featuring posts produced by such a program.

Examples

“Automated Twitterbots collected all tweets related to the trial – marked by the posters with the tag '#spectrial' – and distributed them as a central feed⟳ for anyone who wished to follow⟳ the debate⟳ in real time.”

“Even better, they've set⟳ up a Twitterbot: Just send⟳ a tweet with a bike's serial number⟳ to @ISITSTOLEN and the bot will check both sites, and report⟳ back!”

“That was flagged up by a Twitterbot, @RuGovEdits, an automated Twitter account that crawls the online encyclopedia for such edits.”

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