Botnet Consisting Out Of 350,000 Twitter Accounts Discovered By Researchers At The University College London

Bot accounts can wreak havoc on social networks. They could be used (and are used) for many different purposes. For instance, an authoritarian ruler decides to push for a law that could endanger right to privacy. The people are (rightfully) against the bill, but with a strong botnet, the situation can be showed as being completely opposite. Also, bot accounts are useful to large companies, who can use them for sending automated ad posts to large number of users. And there is the lucrative business of selling followers, which is on the rise since more and more people want to

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