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[Steve Simon]

thought this might bring a wry smile to some:

Fake Tweets by 'Socialbot' Fool Hundreds of Followers,
New Scientist, (03/24/11), Jim Giles

Three socialbots recently integrated themselves into a group of
Twitter users, gained more than 250 followers, and received more than
240 responses to the tweets they sent over a two-week period as part
of Socialbots 2011, a competition designed to test whether bots can be
used to change the structure of a social network.  The bots were
rewarded for the number of followers they obtained and the number of
responses their tweets resulted in.  The socialbots analyzed tweets
sent by members of the network who shared a particular interest and
then created a suitable response.  The best-peforming bot gained more
than 100 followers and generated about 200 responses.  Socialbots 2011
organizer Tim Hwang says the bots were "able to heavily shape and
distort the structure of the network.  We could use these bots in the
future to encourage social participation or support for humanitarian
causes." Hwang has already planned the next socialbot project.  "We're
going to survey and identify two sites of 5,000-person unconnected
Twitter communities, and over a six- to 12-month period use waves of
bots to thread and rivet those clusters together into a directly
connected social bridge between those two formerly independent
groups," he says.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20928045.100-fake-tweets-by-socialbot-fool-hundreds-of-followers.html

-Steve

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[Wes Kussmaul]

On Fri, 2011-03-25 at 20:16 +0000, Steve Simon wrote:


> Fake Tweets by 'Socialbot' Fool Hundreds of Followers,
> New Scientist, (03/24/11), Jim Giles


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[Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX)]

> This is not new. "Politicians" are socialbots generating sentences from
> a limited set of "politically correct" chunks (this means: that don't 
> make sense) and have, still, millions of followers... and cause millions
> of deaths too...

Listen, just because we called an election today ... wait! Where's
my research grant?!?

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[tlaronde at polynum.com]

On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 08:16:59PM +0000, Steve Simon wrote:
> 
> Fake Tweets by 'Socialbot' Fool Hundreds of Followers,
> New Scientist, (03/24/11), Jim Giles
> 

This is not new. "Politicians" are socialbots generating sentences from
a limited set of "politically correct" chunks (this means: that don't 
make sense) and have, still, millions of followers... and cause millions
of deaths too...

And a majority of "research" papers could be made by socialbots too (the
difference with today is that every fake researcher is doing the swindle
by hand---I mean by mouse).
-- 
        Thierry Laronde <tlaronde +AT+ polynum +dot+ com>
                      http://www.kergis.com/
Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89  250D 52B1 AE95 6006 F40C

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[Bruce Ellis]

sweet

On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 7:16 AM, Steve Simon <steve at quintile.net> wrote:
> thought this might bring a wry smile to some:
>
> Fake Tweets by 'Socialbot' Fool Hundreds of Followers,
> New Scientist, (03/24/11), Jim Giles
>
> Three socialbots recently integrated themselves into a group of
> Twitter users, gained more than 250 followers, and received more than
> 240 responses to the tweets they sent over a two-week period as part
> of Socialbots 2011, a competition designed to test whether bots can be
> used to change the structure of a social network. ?The bots were
> rewarded for the number of followers they obtained and the number of
> responses their tweets resulted in. ?The socialbots analyzed tweets
> sent by members of the network who shared a particular interest and
> then created a suitable response. ?The best-peforming bot gained more
> than 100 followers and generated about 200 responses. ?Socialbots 2011
> organizer Tim Hwang says the bots were "able to heavily shape and
> distort the structure of the network. ?We could use these bots in the
> future to encourage social participation or support for humanitarian
> causes." Hwang has already planned the next socialbot project. ?"We're
> going to survey and identify two sites of 5,000-person unconnected
> Twitter communities, and over a six- to 12-month period use waves of
> bots to thread and rivet those clusters together into a directly
> connected social bridge between those two formerly independent
> groups," he says.
>
> http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20928045.100-fake-tweets-by-socialbot-fool-hundreds-of-followers.html
>
> -Steve
>
>