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Season 1, Episode 6: Twitter Bots
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Jon Ronson visits web analyst Tim Hwang (Web Ecology Project), who along with his colleagues has developed bots for the social media service Twitter. The bots generate random tweets in an experiment to see if they could steer the conversation amongst real human tweeters.
All Episodes - Season 1
Episode 1
The Search for Omer Gershon
Episode 2
Astroturfing
Episode 3
Two Weeks Later
Episode 4
Egypt's Arab Spring
Episode 5
Friday
Episode 6
Twitter Bots
Episode 7
JON VS JON
Episode 8
Patrice Wilson Follow-Up
Episode 9
JON VS JON Part 2
Episode 10
Atos
Episode 11
Tuesday
Episode 12
Finding Omer
Episode 13
Tuesday Music Video