Twitterbot

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noun

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

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Meanings

nounTwitterbot (plural Twitterbots)

plural Twitterbots

  1. 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 Listener
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    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 1

    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!

    2014 July, Pax Rasmussen, “News and ideas for a healthier, more sustainable future”, in Catalyst Magazine, volume 33, number 7, page 12

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APA

Twitterbot. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Twitterbot

MLA

“Twitterbot.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Twitterbot. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Twitterbot,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Twitterbot.

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