It's just filler to make the bot look like a human, the real point is the spam tweets in between the other inane dribble & jokes.
I noticed that most of the bots I looked at don't seem to be following anyone (or follow very few), but do average a couple hundred followers.. are they getting followers via DMing people or what? Also, I've noticed at least some of the bots are being followed by other bots... Weird stuff, may have to devote some time to checking it out... On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 2:23 PM, Jon Kibler <[email protected]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Larry Seltzer wrote: >> Many tweets with this message in the last 24 hours or so. Any guess at >> what it?s about? >> >> >> >> http://twitter.com/home#search?q=SQL%20backup%20job%20failures%20 >> >> > > Okay, maybe I am dense. (I have never understood Twitter, so I guess that, by > definition, may make me dense.) > > So, what would be accomplished by a bot posting the same message multiple > times > to twitter? I don't get it. > > Jon > - -- > Jon R. Kibler > Chief Technical Officer > Advanced Systems Engineering Technology, Inc. > Charleston, SC USA > o: 843-849-8214 > c: 843-813-2924 > s: 843-564-4224 > http://www.linkedin.com/in/jonrkibler > > My PGP Fingerprint is: > BAA2 1F2C 5543 5D25 4636 A392 515C 5045 CF39 4253 > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (Darwin) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ > > iEYEARECAAYFAkrKOZUACgkQUVxQRc85QlP8PwCffpOpgKNkqHme61k/+6y6PnPg > TUIAn2/2El7GhfeBsLS5+ochPpy4x210 > =ptlg > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > > > ================================================== > Filtered by: TRUSTEM.COM's Email Filtering Service > http://www.trustem.com/ > No Spam. No Viruses. Just Good Clean Email. > > > _______________________________________________ > Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. > https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec > Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list. > _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
