Large scale Twitter bot farm targeting Londoners

There appears to be a Twitter bot farm, with nearly 130,000 fake accounts that are targetting London accounts, including the Mayor of London, the Evening Standard and a number of listings websites and venues.

20,000 Tweets by IanVisits

A couple of years ago I was asked if I used Twitter, and I replied that broadcasting my life to all and sundry would be a list of “wake up, make coffee, work, make coffee, work, make coffee, eat, work,…

It’s “Follow a Museum Day” on Twitter

Twitter, a place where people chat about their latest cup of coffee (guilty!) or hang on the latest comment from tabloid celeb X (not guilty!), also has a more worthy side to it. Quite a few museums have leapt onto…

Will policy, or technology win the next election

Sorry for the flood of political posts recently, I’m sure they’ll dry up shortly! — Last night I wandered over to a debate hosted by Delib and the Henry Jackson Society on the issue of if “technology, not policy, will…

CERN on Twitter

A slightly introspective posting – but as a fairly avid user of Twitter, I have been following the account being managed by the people at the particle physics lab at CERN. A fairly quiet account, things livened up considerably on…