# Man Builds Twitter Bot That Humans Actually Like

<http://www.wired.com/2012/06/twitter_arm/>

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## From the page (probably an excerpt, not Jamie's words)

@Trackgirl was set up to infiltrate a group of runners. She would scour Twitter for messages with running-themed keywords and post them as if they were her own. Three times a day, shed pick five people to follow, and shed always follow back anybody who followed her. Because she seemed connected to the right people, @Trackgirl started to gain followers, who thought her cut-and-paste messages about the agony and the ecstasy of long-distance running were coming from a real person. One day, however, the Twitter bot posted a message saying that shed hurt her ankle.

## Facts

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- Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.wired.com/2012/06/twitter_arm/