Twitter has more than 300 million monthly active users. But researchers have estimated that between about 30 million and 50 million of those are Twitter bots--automated accounts that do the bidding of their code--writing creators.
推特拥有超过3亿的月度活跃用户。但研究人员估计,其中约3000万到5000万是推特机器人,即执行代码编写人员指令的自动账户。
"There could newsbots, and there could be spam bots," said Zafar Gilani, a PhD student at the University of Cambridge in the U.K.
在英国剑桥大学就读博士的扎法尔·吉拉尼说道:“可能是资讯机器人,也可能是垃圾邮件机器人。”
"Or there could be bots doing political infiltration, which is obviously bad. Or social infiltration which could be bad."
“或者可能是机器人在进行政治渗透,这显然很糟糕。又或者是机器人在进行社会渗透,这也不好。”
Not all bots are bad. Some are just geeky, like a bot that describes imaginary exoplanets. Or another that tweets only prime numbers.
不过并不是所有机器人都是不好的。有一些机器人只是比较呆,比如有的机器人账号会描绘虚构的系外行星。还有的账号只发和质数有关的消息。
"It really depends on who the botmaster is and what are the intentions and what are the motivations."
“这其实取决于账号操控者的身份及其意图和动机。”
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