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Twitter botnet quotes 'Star Wars' from the middle of the sea
Along with trolls and bullies, one of Twitter's biggest problems is bots -- automated accounts that puff up follower numbers, troll users or turn fake news into trending topics. Researchers investigating botnets found maybe the strangest one ever: 350,000 that tweet only random Star Wars quotes from Windows Phone devices. While that's actually kind of amusing, the researchers say that it reveals "profound limitations of existing bot detection methods" and shows the potential risks that hidden networks pose to the Twitter ecosystem.
