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On January 13th, 2020, shortly before midnight Pacific time, our good friend @DrunkAlexJones debuted the hashtag #FishingForRobots in order to, well, fish for robots. #ThursdayThoughts #ManyFishBite
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@DrunkAlexJones @ZellaQuixote We used three different tools (Hypefury, Crowdfire, and TweetDeck) to schedule @DrunkAlexJones #FishingForRobots tweetstorms at roughly midnight PST on seven recent occasions. 91 additional accounts picked up the hashtag, 76 of which are at least mostly automated.
@DrunkAlexJones @ZellaQuixote We designed #FishingForRobots tweets to attract bots, and evolved them several times over the course of the experiment. The first set of tweets (sent via Hypefury) contained hashtags we knew from previous experience would likely result in bots retweeting or cloning the tweets.
Cross-posting can be a great social media strategy for your business if you do it right! We'd like to take this opportunity to thank @LifeWithAshleyT for tagging @ZellaQuixote in an automated tweet for no good reason, or we'd never have learned this valuable insight!
At present, @LifeWithAshleyT is largely automated; most tweets are posted via paper(dot)li, with Facebook and Instagram crossposts (the latter via IFTTT) making up much of the remainder of the traffic. This account has tried a variety of automation tools over the years.
What does the automated content posted by @LifeWithAshleyT via paper(dot)li look like? The tweets consist of the phrase ("The latest The Modern Connection Daily!" combined with a link, the hashtags #marketing and #socialmedia, and unsolicited mentions of 1-3 Twitter accounts.
