Twitter Will Be The Birthplace Of Skynet

You know Skynet, right? From The Terminator movies?

Everybody seems to think that if an entity like Skynet was going to develop in real life, it would likely arise via the military, like in the film. Or possibly Google.

But where does everything happen on the internet first? Right, commerce. Notably in the form of porn and spam. Two things that are very much on the up within Twitter.

Here’s a thought: we’re probably less than five years away from spambots being so sophisticated that not only will you gladly follow them, you’ll be engaging with them.

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