Trump thanks a Twitter bot for its support.

[Miles Archer]

Link to tweet

[LW1977]

1. *face palm*

[mahina]

2. How would somebody know it was a bot? I'd like to know. Thanks.

[oberliner]

4. It's not a bot

Bizarre that anyone would just assume a person tweeting "you just thanked a bot" makes it true.

[mahina]

6. OK. How would you discern whether it was or wasn't?

Thanks.

[oberliner]

7. Look through the twitter posts of that account

Seems pretty humanoid to me.

[bathroommonkey76]

8. Give the Botometer a try

Botometer checks the activity of a Twitter account and gives it a score based on how likely the account is to be a bot. Higher scores are more bot-like.

Note the following:

Use of this service requires authenticating with Twitter. For more, see this FAQ.
Botometer often categorizes "organizational accounts", like @BarackObama, as bot accounts.
If something's not working, let us know by tweeting @Botometer.
Botometer is a joint project of the Indiana University Network Science Institute (IUNI) and the Center for Complex Networks and Systems Research (CNetS).

Interested in using Botometer in your application? Check out our API.

https://botometer.iuni.iu.edu/#!/

[mahina]

10. Awesome. Thanks.

[bathroommonkey76]

9. A lot of the pro-Trump accounts that tweet @ him are considered

bots.

Most have a 50% or higher score on the Botometer:

https://twitter.com/JacobAWohl

https://twitter.com/JohnPaul_USA

[oberliner]

3. No, he didn't

Twitter makes people so stupid.

[msongs]

5. twitter is the new god on DU nt

[Oneironaut]

11. He's not a bot (99% sure). A quick peek at his Twitter account shows human responses.