eli5: How do social media “bots” work? Are they like programmed trolls? How do their accounts/comments seem as if they could be a real person’s?

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eli5: How do social media “bots” work? Are they like programmed trolls? How do their accounts/comments seem as if they could be a real person’s?

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Answer 1

There’s different levels of bots. Some are posting generic crap that is already typed out word for word in a database of things to say. Others are searching for tweets with keyword combinations and then responding with appropriate cached responses for those keywords.

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