How many bots can you spot here?

[Arkansas Granny]

Link to tweet

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Link to tweet

/photo/1?

[Willto]

1. Hmmmm,

I think I spot a pattern. LOL!

[Sherman A1]

2. I assume it Twitter

So I would say everything that is posted there.

[Deb]

3. Seems to me that could also be an example of turning a legit post into a bot post

[Renew Deal]

4. Who "burns movies"?

How did they burn them? Sounds like BS to me.

[iscooterliberally]

7. Maybe they still use VCRs in Russia?

[Deb]

8. In a fire?

[niyad]

24. Ever try to actually burn a cd?

[CaptainTruth]

28. CDs produce one heck of a light show if you microwave them.

But I wouldn't do it with a microwave you wanted to keep.

[Maeve]

10. Get it right---they burn "movie's"

That inappropriate apostrophe says so very much !

[GoCubsGo]

13. Well, unfortunately, far too many non-bots also abuse the apostrophe.

Drives me nuts. If it were up to me, "Bob's Quick Guide to the Apostrophe, You Idiots" would be pinned at the top of every English-language discussion board, comments section and social media outlet.

[luvtheGWN]

20. Amen to that!

[2naSalit]

15. Those are often the first thing I notice.

They drive me crazy and so they stand out like a billboard on a country lane.

[niyad]

26. As I pointed out years ago to those burning the Harry Potter books, one has to have purchased t

first. What one does with them afterwards does not affect the artist.

[sinkingfeeling]

5. Exact wording and misuse of apostrophe. I think I might see bots.

[3Hotdogs]

6. I think the one on the bottom, left is a bot.

[hkp11]

9. unbelievable how much Ruskies are trying to influence our election

Unfortunately, the Drumpters supporters don't see it...they are blind

[durablend]

11. They see it perfectly fine

And are A-OK with it.

[hkp11]

16. true

with Drumpf, faux news, RW radio, etc - they just hear and see what they want to see.

[JI7]

12. I guess with how much Trump owes them it's worth it for Putin

[Ilsa]

14. Really bad cut-n-paste job.

Verbatim copy, keeping the U capped, etc. I twitter hired enough people to keep locking those accounts until inauguration day.

[PatSeg]

19. Even no period

after the last sentence in every single one. Really lazy bots!

[louzke9]

17. ONE BOT!

In BOT factory, each bot develops multiply bot accounts. In response to a news story, they write a response and then COPY/paste and post that response under their multiple bot accounts, sometimes tweaking a few of the words. I have seen one bot persona used/shared at HP by TWO bots. Two different bots with different personalities. One bot can post reasonable/reflective comments on a topic and then at other times, posts that are totally absurd and extreme....drawing me to the conclusion that two different bots (in different shifts maybe) are posting under the one bot persona. They haven't figured out yet that their comments CONTRADICT each other, LOL!

[Aussie105]

18. This sort of 'bot' text propagation

just renders Twitter irrelevant as a source of information.

100% propaganda, and its so easy to avoid being exposed to it. After a while you end up assuming EVERY post from anyone is suspect.

As for Don's tweets - he seems to have multiple people posting under his name, judging from the sheer volume and correct use of grammar and spelling.

Who needs that? I don't!

[Lonestarblue]

21. Won't it be great when we no longer have government by Twitter?

[calimary]

22. "... burning his movie's" ???

Uh-huh.

[cwydro]

31. Unfortunately I see that kind of mistake here pretty often.

I don’t imagine they’re all bots.

The example in the OP is clearly one of bots though lol.

[calimary]

35. Catholic school here. I notice those things all the time.

Punctuation and spelling. They just drilled it I em to you. It’s kind of an obsession. And they’d award a holy card to the winner. I usually had a stack about three inches high. Used to collect ‘em like boys did baseball cards. We all did. “I’ve got 11 Nativity scenes. Can I trade one for a St. Agnes with the lamb?” “WOW - how many St. Christophers do you have?” “You got a St. Lucy with the eyeball tray (St. Lucy allegedly was blinded on her way to martyrdom and that’s often how she was depicted)? I’ve been looking for that one! Where’d you get it?”
And some of the martyrs were depicted with a bleeding cut at their throats to signify beheading. Pretty gruesome stuff. And we ate it up!

[cwydro]

36. No Catholic school here, but my mother was a grammar Nazi lol.

I come by it honestly. Drives me crazy.

The apostrophe thing is a big one here, but then there’s always their, there, they’re. Your and you’re.

Reign and rain seem to be on a resurgence here lately. The use of affect and effect seem to cause people a great deal of difficulty.

I could go on, but I know you know what I mean!

[calimary]

37. And don't forget its and it's!

Sounds like you'll win the next holy card!

I got several extra Holy Family cards to trade for a St. Francis with the birds and animals or a St. Martin cutting his cloak in half for the beggar...

[ihas2stinkyfeet]

38. dang. jealous. thought i got the full catholic school experience.

but we were a poor, collar parish. and new. no stockpiles from nuns gone by.

[calimary]

39. That's where I first learned about frisbees.

Down in the lunch room on paper plate day (when they served hot dogs)!

Those paper plates can really fly!

[ihas2stinkyfeet]

40. oh yeah. we had hot dog day in the basement. no cafeteria. no gym either.

the chapel was a big square box that was gonna be the gym when they build a real church. never did, tho. when i went to my mom's funeral, they had redone it to look more like a church. took out about 2/3 of the pews and put a crazy drop ceiling sorta thing over a center alter.

but now i have to go look up st rita of cascia. i think she was martyred. my middle name is rita. boy did i hate that.

[ihas2stinkyfeet]

42. oh boy. a widow w a partial stigmata.

funny. patron saint of abused wives and heartbroken women. maybe that helped my mom deal w my da's drinking. who knows. i dont think they said much about that part. i'm sure the nuns never mentioned it to us kids. but lord knows they told some gory tales.

[jaxexpat]

23. Wow, what a coincidence.

Maybe people will rethink the infinite monkeys and typewriters and sonnets quandary.

[NutmegYankee]

25. What did The Rock do? nt

[niyad]

27. Didn't he and his family test positive?

[CaptainTruth]

30. He endorsed Biden.

[NutmegYankee]

32. Ah.

The Trumpzis always freak out when they realize most people don't share their delusions.

[catbyte]

34. He endorsed Joe Biden.

[CaptainTruth]

29. My kids were going to burn their 70mm IMAX reels...

...but then I explained how many nasty chemicals would be released by the combustion process & they decided against it.

[canuckledragger]

33. Of course, the bots are trying to claim it's a prank.

Now that they've been exposed for what they are.

[FakeNoose]

41. I used to see this kind of activity on the Yahoo boards

Disclaimer: I joined DU almost 4 years ago so I haven't been on Yahoo recently. It may be completely different now.

However during the 2015/16 campaign and election time, I used to see multiple posts from obvious bots that were word-for-word identical to each other. Of course they were all anti-Hillary, anti-Democratic, anti-liberal, and they were thoughtless spouts of complete nonsense. But the posts kept showing up on different Yahoo threads, posted by different "people" (with obvious fake names).

It seemed to me that there must be some archive available where they were getting the identical complaints/diatribes and all they did was copy and paste. If any other Yahoo poster challenged the rightwing garbage, they got either no response, or else a collection of anti-liberal insults. The fake-name "bot-people" NEVER responded to any thoughtful challenge because that didn't serve their purpose.

It seems this right-wing bot behavior has mostly moved into the Twitterverse now because of course, there are so many more eyeballs there than on Yahoo. I have to say it doesn't surprise me that they're there. I'm very glad they aren't on DU, and that's why I'm happy to be here!

Let's make sure we keep DU clean of all bots - especially the RWNJ types.