My favorite Twitter account is a bot

Human Twitter accounts serve their purpose, but I prefer tweets from bots.

Research suggests there are now some 30 million tweeting bots — though this might be a low estimate. Some of these bots provide weather updates, make stock recommendations, or attempt to subvert democracy. 

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I, however, like bots that aren't necessarily so useful nor ambitious. I look forward to their musings because their primary directive is to produce creative or absurd content — and I'm not alone. 

"I like anything that’s going to inject a little strangeness, beyond the normal strangeness that we have every day now," Charles Bergquist, the creator of my favorite twitter bot, NewFound Planets, told Mashable. Bergquist is also the director of the public radio program Science Friday.  Read more...

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