Fooling Twitter
LOL. The application of social bots to game social networks.
One team in the competition decided to test their bots on Amazon’s Mechanical Turk service, which is based on swarms of humans performing simple tasks very cheaply. As Ackerman explained, “so a bot would get a message on Twitter, post that message on Mechanical Turk, and ask (say) 25 different people to respond to it for (say) three cents each. The bot would then pick one response and use it, and there you go, you’ve got clueless humans talking to clueless humans.”
-Shlok
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