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Twitter has launched a new feature that lets an operator of an automated account add a special label to their profile to indicate to others that it’s a bot. The company has been testing the feature ...

Not everything posted on Twitter is written by a human, and Twitter has decided it's probably a good idea to label automated tweets generated by bots. As Engadget reports, Twitter is running a test ...

Automation has a strong role to play in lessening the burden on social media managers and entrepreneurs while enhancing their presence on Twitter and other social platforms. There are a number of ...

The new feature is designed to make it clear at a glance which tweets weren’t sent by a person. So that users no longer have to guess which accounts are automated bots and which are run by humans at ...

A team of researchers at Duo Security has unearthed a sophisticated botnet operating on Twitter — and being used to spread a cryptocurrency scam. The botnet was discovered during the course of a wider ...

Twitter is working on adding automated captions to audio and video as part of a larger effort to make the platform more accessible. In an announcement, the company says it was recently made aware it’s ...

The Pi is hard wired into a home automation board that controls a fan, light, AC, and the temperature. It’s then controlled over Twitter direct messages so it’s super easy to check the status or flip ...

Twitter said Tuesday it will permit public institutions such as transit agencies and the National Weather Service to post large volumes of automated tweets for free, provided that the accounts doing ...

“All of the work we do should require creativity and judgment”, said Alex Smolen, software engineer at Twitter. “If the work doesn’t require either of these things, we should write a tool to do it - ...

Twitter got some great headlines this week when it started linking President Donald Trump’s tweets to fact-checks. “Twitter has finally started fact-checking Trump,” said Recode. “Twitter’s first fact ...

Twitter will change its automated image cropping feature after users complained that it was biased. The company says it’s working to “decrease our reliance” on automatic cropping so users can ...