Twitter, the platform formally known as X, has a bot problem. If you want to see just how bad it is, I’ll teach you the magic words that summon the machines. For the past year, Don Marti has been tweeting requests for help with “MetaMask support.”

Closing arguments are set to kick off Tuesday in a trial pitting Elon Musk against Twitter shareholders who say the world’s richest man engaged in a pattern of deceptive behavior that misled investors as he attempted to back out of his $44 billion deal to buy the social media platform in 2022.

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 often we’ve had to break the news to a young company ...

Twitter bots are automated user accounts that interact with Twitter using an application programming interface (API). These bots can be programmed to perform tasks normally associated with human interaction, including follow users, favor tweets, direct ...

Rampant bot activity on Twitter helped pump the price of FTX-listed and Alameda Research-traded cryptocurrency, a new study found. Researchers at the Network Contagion Research Institute also found that bot activity and price action significantly increased ...

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’ plans for their Twitter bots when they die.

Grimes is leading the charge of AI in music right now: Notably, she has an officially sanctioned AI model of her voice that artists can use in songs. She also has an AI Twitter bot that’s based on her, but it’s not perfect. This morning (August 4), the ...

Hamza Mudassir does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment. X, formerly known as Twitter ...

On Tuesday, A lawyer for former Twitter investors told a San Francisco federal jury that Elon Musk deliberately undermined the company in 2022 by publicly casting doubt on the number of fake accounts on the platform.