Meanings
plural Twitterbots
- A program used to produce automated posts on the microblogging service Twitter; by extension, a Twitter account featuring posts produced by such a program.
That was flagged up by a Twitterbot, @RuGovEdits, an automated Twitter account that crawls the online encyclopedia for such edits.
2014 July 24, Toby Manhire, “The Wikipedia editors rumbled as government staffers”, in New Zealand Listener2 more 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.
2013, James Allen-Robertson, Digital Culture Industry: A History of Digital Distribution, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, page 1Even 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!
2014 July, Pax Rasmussen, “News and ideas for a healthier, more sustainable future”, in Catalyst Magazine, volume 33, number 7, page 12
Origin
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