You may have heard of the Web Bot Project. It was an application that crawled news articles, blogs, forums, and other forms of Internet conversations, looking for specific keywords. Its creators, Clif ...

But maybe there's a lesson we can learn: If the power of suggestion is such that it can will bad stuff to happen (which could be what's going on; after all, the Web Bot Project makes its predictions ...

This project explores behavioural, linguistic, and profile-based features of Twitter accounts to distinguish genuine human users from automated bot accounts. With bots now exceeding 50% of global web ...