Tag Archives: TheBotFather
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#TheBotFather: Brains

Check out what the creator of Favrd, a widely popular service that showcased who “favorited” tweets and tallied them, said via the Favrd homepage the day he pulled the plug on it a little over a week ago: There are still lots of clever and funny things to read every day, but finding these is [...]

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#TheBotFather: Basics

Part of what makes Twitter so enchanting is that it’s still considered “safe” (for the time being) in the minds of those who use it. The average person isn’t bombarded with some of the net elements they encounter nearly everywhere else: there are not tons of unwanted ads, or spam, or what I can only [...]

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#TheBotFather

voice: Jeff Elder, production: Justin Ruckman, music: RJD2; watch in HD on Vimeo There’s an impostor on your Twitter and it’s not who you think. Want to know what former Observer social networking columnist Jeff Elder is responding to? Catch the second installation of our three-part series on #TheBotFather tomorrow morning.

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