<story><title>Up to 48M Twitter accounts may be bots</title><url>http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/as-many-as-48-million-twitter-accounts-arent-people-says-study/ar-AAo9e16?li=AA4Zoy&amp;ocid=spartandhp</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Zenst</author><text>Came across one the other day, just by mentioning in a post &amp;quot;blue plaque&amp;quot;, got instant like and retweet.&lt;p&gt;This started me thinking of a little game - what post with the limitations of 140 characters could you post that would trigger the attention of the most bots for automatic retweets&amp;#x2F;likes?&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s on my to do list, when bored, but I&amp;#x27;d imagine others have had comparable thoughts and may of already had a go.&lt;p&gt;Anybody got any other examples?</text></comment>
<story><title>Up to 48M Twitter accounts may be bots</title><url>http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/as-many-as-48-million-twitter-accounts-arent-people-says-study/ar-AAo9e16?li=AA4Zoy&amp;ocid=spartandhp</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>have_faith</author><text>Better title: &amp;quot;Up to 48 Twitter accounts may be human&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Snark aside, there is no way around this. Followers in digital public spaces are representative of social status, the demand for appearing popular will never go away and so neither will the bots.</text></comment>