Twitter: Where Bots Can Be Proud to Be Bots (If They’re Good)

The social network begins enabling automated accounts to label themselves as such

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Twitter is letting bots be bots, as long as they’re good bots.

The social network is giving automated accounts a way to identify themselves as such via a label on the profiles, helping users differentiate between them and accounts run by humans.



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Twitter said its research found that people wanted more context about accounts they interact with.

The feature is rolling out with a small number of developer accounts, and all developers should have access by year-end.

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