Identifying and eliminating Twitter bots has always been a major concern. The past couple of years alone has seen an enormous surge in the number of automated bot accounts.
Twitter did ban thousands of Twitter bots that violated Twitter’s policies. Although, the booming business of selling automated bot accounts has only increased the number of bot accounts. The banned accounts were soon replaced by millions of new bot accounts.
The bot accounts can tweet content, interact with users, follow users, or retweet content associated with a specific account or hashtag. It is estimated that over 15% of accounts on Twitter are automated bot accounts.
What is a Twitter bot?
A Twitter bot is a bot software that uses the Twitter API to interact and engage with Twitter users. The Twitter bots can be programmed or automated to perform a specific task or series of tasks. It can autonomously tweet, retweet, like, follow, unfollow, or DM other accounts.
A customer support chatbot is a prime example of a Twitter bot. It can help improve the overall customer support experience by improving the response time. Although these Twitter bots do not pretend to be a real person. These bots are set with clear expectations to help them point to the logical steps or call for action.
Here are some of the most useful and amazing bots on Twitter,
@BotSentinel: This is a Twitter bot developed to identify and track political bots, troll accounts, and automated bots masquerading as genuine users. It also identifies tweets mentioning fake news posted by inauthentic accounts.
@HundredZeros: Amazon has a vast collection of amazing ebooks. @HundredZeros is a Twitter bot that frequently recommends amazing ebooks that are free on Amazon. This helps followers and avid readers find great titles to read.
@MagicRealismBot: Magic realism is quite an amusing Twitter bot that argues the existence and significance of magic in the real world. The tweets posted by this bot are some of the funniest tweets you will find. It takes random day-to-day tasks and expresses them with some magic.
@DearAssistant: Virtual Assistants (Google Assistant, Siri, Alexa) are now the most used medium to extract relevant information. @DearAssistant is a Twitter bot developed to provide answers to questions like the definition of words, the distance between places, and more.
@Earthquakbot: When earthquakes happen, they cause massive destruction of life and property. It is best to stay informed and the @Earthquake bot can help you with that. It is designed to tweet about earthquakes that scale up to 5.0 or above on the Richter scale in real-time.
@TayTweets: @TayTweets is an AI-driven chatterbot that learns more if you interact with it. However, it has posted some rather controversial, racist, and sexist tweets that resulted in outrage from the community.
@Netflix_bot: Netflix releases a lot of new video content every month, however, it is hard to keep track of all of these new releases. @Netflix_bot is a bot designed to tweet about the latest releases as soon as they are updated on the platform.
@nicetipsbot: This an amusing Twitter bot that tweets useful and sometimes very hilarious life tips. The tips range from household cleaning to valuable life lessons.
