There’s no good way to ask people if they think Twitter will outlive them. I don’t mean any offense to Jack Dorsey and Co., but one must ask this awkward question when trying to find out programmers’ ...

What are the methods twitter bots use to fool us, and what are some of the challenges in doing so? Hosted by: Olivia Gordon ...

For years it’s been obvious that online social services of all kinds are beset by a problem with bots. I work on a cybersecurity product that can go inline and literally watch bot traffic, and too ...

It looks like X, the company formerly known as Twitter, has a Verified bot problem. Although X owner Elon Musk suggested that forcing users to pay for verification would help to weed out the bots (aka ...

About three weeks ago, I started noticing that almost every time I opened up Twitter, the Notifications tab had that oh-so-nice blue dot, the reward for tweeting well done. The flag alerts users ...

Almost a thousand Twitter accounts controlled by a large bot farm pushing Russian propaganda and domains used to register the bots were taken down in a joint international law enforcement operation ...

Cybara said it searched through Twitter for conversations surrounding Trump and the 2024 election. Of the posts that researchers identified as being pro-Trump, 64% were bots. Among those fake profiles ...

This story is free to read because readers choose to support LAist. If you find value in independent local reporting, make a donation to power our newsroom today. The routine of a loyal X (formerly ...

Elon Musk’s $44 billion deal to buy Twitter (TWTR) is in purgatory. The brash Tesla (TSLA) CEO put the purchase on hold May 13, saying, on Twitter, of course, he couldn’t move forward with the ...

Political events could be pushing up the fake bots and users on Twitter, costing advertisers millions in ad spend. Guy Tytunovich, CEO and co-founder at Cybersecurity company CHEQ, speaking from ...