Twitterbot

English

Etymology

Twitter +‎ -bot

Noun

Twitterbot (plural Twitterbots)

1. A program used to produce automated posts on the microblogging service Twitter; by extension, a Twitter account featuring posts produced by such a program.
   • 2013, James Allen-Robertson, Digital Culture Industry: A History of Digital Distribution, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, page 1:

     Automated Twitterbots collected all tweets related to the trial – marked by the posters with the tag '#spectrial' – and distributed them as a central feed for anyone who wished to follow the debate in real time.

   • 2014 July, Pax Rasmussen, “News and ideas for a healthier, more sustainable future”, in Catalyst Magazine, volume 33, number 7, page 12:

     Even better, they've set up a Twitterbot: Just send a tweet with a bike's serial number to @ISITSTOLEN and the bot will check both sites, and report back!

   • 2014 July 24, Toby Manhire, “The Wikipedia editors rumbled as government staffers”, in New Zealand Listener:

     That was flagged up by a Twitterbot, @RuGovEdits, an automated Twitter account that crawls the online encyclopedia for such edits.