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A Twitter bot is a type of software bot that controls a Twitter account via the Twitter API. [1] The social bot software may autonomously perform actions such as tweeting, retweeting, liking, following, unfollowing, or direct messaging other accounts.
Individual tweets can be forwarded by other users to their own feed, a process known as a "retweet". In 2015, Twitter launched "quote tweet" (originally called "retweet with comment"), [7] a feature that allows users to add a comment to their retweet, nesting one tweet in the other. [8] Users can also "like" (formerly "favorite") individual ...
Tweetbot was initially released on April 14, 2011, by Tapbots on the App Store.It was only available for the iPhone at that time. Features were added to the program over time, including multiple account switching, in-timeline viewing of images and YouTube video thumbnails, push notifications, and the ability to mute certain users and topics in the timeline view temporarily.
A bot is a computer program that can automatically tweet, retweet, and follow other accounts. Twitter's open application programming interface and the availability of cloud servers make it possible for bots to exist within the social networking site. [381]
An Internet bot, web robot, robot or simply bot, [1] is a software application that runs automated tasks on the Internet, usually with the intent to imitate human activity, such as messaging, on a large scale. [2] An Internet bot plays the client role in a client–server model whereas the server role is usually played by web servers. Internet ...
The following table lists the top 30 most-retweeted posts on X/Twitter, the account that posted or tweeted it, the total number of retweets or reposts rounded down to the nearest hundred thousand, and the date it was originally posted. Posts that have an identical number of reposts are listed in date order with the most recent post ranked highest.
A social bot, also described as a social AI or social algorithm, is a software agent that communicates autonomously on social media.The messages (e.g. tweets) it distributes can be simple and operate in groups and various configurations with partial human control (hybrid) via algorithm.
A historical precedent to reblogging is the viral nature of e-mail, as "Internet petitions" and "chain e-mails" which encouraged e-mail users to "resend" the e-mail to at least a minimum number of contacts on one's contact list were highly popular (and highly controversial) in the 1980s and 1990s.