No, the names and behavior of the bots on Twitter are so simple that they are absolutely clearly identifiable as a bot. A bot, or social bot, is a computer program that operates automatically on the Internet and carries out certain activities on social networks such as Facebook, Twitter or Instagram. These bots can, for example, write comments, send messages, share posts or distribute likes.

Social bots can be used by various actors, for example companies, politicians or even criminal organizations. One goal of using social bots is often to influence public opinion or push certain topics. These programs can also be used to deceive human users by impersonating real users, for example, creating false public opinion or reflecting a false picture of reality. There has also been speculation in the past that they can influence political elections, but this bot effect has not turned out to be as big as originally thought. The use of social bots is controversial as they can help undermine the credibility and authenticity of social media.

How are these bots currently making themselves felt?

The bots make their presence felt by liking random comments or tweets en masse at the same time. They're so obvious that you'd think the accounts in question had bought bots for their own consent. But that's not the case, whoever is affected by this flood of bots basically has nothing to do with it.

The affected tweets or comments are merely victims of the bot flood. Here's an example . What exactly lies behind this is not yet clear. Certainly other platforms are also struggling with bots, especially on Instagram there are a bunch of bots that mix in the comments and, above all, refer to scam websites. We can also observe this behavior in the comment columns on Facebook. But in the last 24 hours, this bot behavior has occurred massively on Twitter. They don't comment, they just like posts.

Some users see this massive appearance of bots in combination with Twitter's current policy as heralding the end of the platform.

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