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Conspirador Norteño @conspirator0
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I accidentally ran across various and sundry bots while searching on the #GamerGate hashtag, so here's a quick thread.
Searching the most recent 10 days worth of #GamerGate tweets for accounts that tweet 24/7 and have used the hashtag more than once in that timespan yields 20 accounts.
This table shows the apps/services used to post the automated tweets to these accounts. Cheap Bots Done Quick and twittbot are both services where one can configure one's own Twitter bot; we will likely look at these in more detail later.
Let's look at a few examples of automated accounts tweeting the #GamerGate hashtag. First up is @gamergeats, which is just too amusing.
Bots are able to tweet anything a human can tweet, including images. @ggmanifesto1921 puts an interesting spin on that by posting additional text *as* images.
Last I checked racial epithets were a violation of Twitter TOS, but nobody seems to have told @smug_ebooks.
One more #GamerGate bot for the road: @TamOmega. The concept would appear to be a mixture of negative game reviews and words ending with "-ism.
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