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Agreed - but we're still unsure what they are too. That's why we develop with them.
Double stealth or triple stealth?
"The public doesn't know what we do and we don't either ... and neither does our product."
Weavrs - autonomous Twitter bots
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#12Earlier quoted context omitted.
Agreed - but we're still unsure what they are too. That's why we develop with them.
Double stealth or triple stealth?
"Triple blind testing" as KK would say. http://longnow.org/seminars/02006/mar/10/long-term-trends-in...
Triple-blind experiments will emerge through massive non-invasive statistical data collection— no one, not the subjects or the experimenters, will realize an experiment was going on until later. (In the Q&A, one questioner predicted the coming of the zero-author paper, generated wholly by computers.)
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#13That site got a fair bit of press (and not in a good way) after they set up one of those bots pretending to be the author Jon Ronson. Jon interviewed the people behind it, judge them for yourself:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/video/2012/mar/27/jo...
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#14Hm, I just realized that I don't like to log in somewhere with my Google account. Too much vital stuff depends on it, and if a site forwards me to a Google login prompt there is always the danger of phishing. Couldn't you provide a classic sign up form? Granted, I may be the last person on earth to use those... Also, why not sign in with Twitter (though I'd really prefer an independent sign up form)?
Hello. We didn't want to put people through a sign-up process AND then then ask them to fill out Weavrs profiles, so we opted for a 3rd party authentication. If we had used Twitter for Auth, then it becomes very confusing. There's Twitter accounts for Weavrs and for the User. If we had used Facebook, then people get really worried about privacy and Weavrs are not private beings. Nothing gets pulled from your Google a…
Getting a generic 500 Server Error when I try to sign up or sign in, FYI.
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#15That site got a fair bit of press (and not in a good way) after they set up one of those bots pretending to be the author Jon Ronson. Jon interviewed the people behind it, judge them for yourself: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/video/2012/mar/27/jo...
that was one of the funniest things I've ever seen, they certainly take an interesting position
Re: Weavrs - autonomous Twitter bots
#16That site got a fair bit of press (and not in a good way) after they set up one of those bots pretending to be the author Jon Ronson. Jon interviewed the people behind it, judge them for yourself: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/video/2012/mar/27/jo...
The Weavr guys have posted the backstory of the jon_ronson bot on their blog. It's an interesting read.
http://philterphactory.com/2012/04/02/jon_ronson-a-weavr-of-...
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#17That site got a fair bit of press (and not in a good way) after they set up one of those bots pretending to be the author Jon Ronson. Jon interviewed the people behind it, judge them for yourself: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/video/2012/mar/27/jo...
Not sure if it's just me, but those guys come across as extremely unlikeable in that video. I don't get how they seem oblivious to why Jon is upset about it, and even at one point one gets (faux?) annoyed that real Jon is telling people following fake Jon to stop doing so.
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#18I didn't like that the weavr bot posted my physical address. I thought giving access to my location would allow it to work in my city, not my actual address. And there is no way to delete that first post.
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#19I didn't like that the weavr bot posted my physical address. I thought giving access to my location would allow it to work in my city, not my actual address. And there is no way to delete that first post.
Did you set it as the Weavr's home address? Change it, and the original address will soon be out of sight and out of mind as the Weavr posts more.
Re: Weavrs - autonomous Twitter bots
#20That site got a fair bit of press (and not in a good way) after they set up one of those bots pretending to be the author Jon Ronson. Jon interviewed the people behind it, judge them for yourself: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/video/2012/mar/27/jo...
Not sure if it's just me, but those guys come across as extremely unlikeable in that video. I don't get how they seem oblivious to why Jon is upset about it, and even at one point one gets (faux?) annoyed that real Jon is telling people following fake Jon to stop doing so.
The central guy comes across as a total psychopath. Twisting everything he says in a strange way. Almost saying the fact that he uses his name on Twitter makes him self-obsesed. I've just looked at my list of @replies and the last ten are all users using their real names.
They have some of the most absolutely weakest arguments I've ever heard yet get away with it. It's as if they don't care if the thousands watching the video aren't convinced at all but if they can annoy Jon they have succeeded.
He says the reason he annoys people by making these accounts is because "I want to understand the algorithms that are used by wall street". These aren't really 'robots', they're just scraping wikipedia and pushing out terms in tweets it believes are relevant, which this has shown aren't.
"I don't know how you relate to the economic collapse". I don't understand this guy, I don't know if they're acting but if they're serious then I'm worried.