If Elon Musk is correct, Twitter is lousy with bots. Accounts that run automatically: liking, tweeting and retweeting according to a script. Often relatively simple, these programs are easy to set up ...

Two weeks ago, to commemorate the anniversary of the relaunch of FiveThirtyEight, I looked at what the site had published and made Markov bots to replicate several of our writers. Here’s how I defined ...

Engineer and researcher Hunter Scott fancied seeing how many Twitter contests he could win, so he did what any good developer would do – he wrote some code to it for him. His Twitter bot – which he ...