Posted on Apr 21, 2018

Twitter doesn’t care that someone is building a bot army in Southeast Asia

PO1 William "Chip" Nagel

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In what appears to be the first regional Twitter bot campaign, a flood of suspicious new followers has been reported by users across Southeast Asia and beyond, including Thailand, Myanmar Cambodia, Hong Kong, China, Taiwan and Sri Lanka among other places.

Twitter doesn’t care that someone is building a bot army in Southeast Asia

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CPL Dave Hoover

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Sometimes the more technology advances, the more I wish to digress to the days of my youth.

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Albert Bewersdorff

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Something like that can‘t be good. I agree with: „Twitter should be looking into the issue more closely, even if for now the apparent bot army isn’t being put to use yet.“

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Twitter doesn’t care that someone is building a bot army in Southeast Asia

Twitter doesn’t care that someone is building a bot army in Southeast Asia

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