Draft spec 0.3 for a bot taxonomy (see also http://i.imgur.com/bKXNQ0V.png) #botALLY
# Towards a Taxonomy of Twitter Bots | |
## Intro | |
- towards a definition - autonomous non-human agents on Twitter | |
- critical thinking - MECE, rabbit rule, holding hands | |
- patterns of behaviour, rather than content | |
- Twitter largely a textual medium | |
- crossover between two broadest categories (automated/event-driven), but largely one or the other (maybe?) | |
- some bots will exhibit both behaviours (active/reactive), but tend to favour one (most commonly, tweeters will also exhibit conversationalist behaviours) | |
- why not tags? | |
- The #botMUS test for independence: if nobody else was tweeting, would I continue to operate? | |
## Independent (of *Twitter* inputs - ) | |
- samplers/ebooks (prefer 'samplers' to distinguish from Markov '_ebooks') | |
- @Horse_ebooks ( :…( ) | |
- mashups (HT @LightAesthetic) | |
- @LatourSwag | |
- @KimKierkegaard | |
- Markovs | |
- permutors/permutators (madlibs/snowclones/piecewise combinators) (HT @LightAesthetic) | |
- iterators/corpus exhausters (HT @BooDooPerson) | |
- @everyword | |
- randomisers (like iterators, but less intentional…?) | |
- @everycolorbot (iterator? Randomiser?) | |
- @killcodes | |
- p-event/(physical)real-world event-driven/IoT | |
- the tower bridge bot | |
- digital event-driven | |
## Dependent (operate in response to conditions on Twitter) | |
- retweeters (on keywords/tags/phrases) | |
- responders/keyword replying | |
- @stealthmountain | |
- two-centers (RT on keywords/tags/phrases, with comment) | |
- @RedScareBot | |
- functions (parse inputs) | |
- @101atron | |
- @MarkovChainMe | |
- whisperers (DM) | |
- @magicrecs | |
- collectors/multiretweeters/mimics (retweeting paired/matched sets) | |
- @pentametron | |
- @annagramatron | |
- mimics (actual spambots) | |
## Qualities outside of this taxonomy | |
- multipartite (@FavThingsBot) | |
- functional/non-functional | |
- "dying, time traveling mimic[s]" (HT @tinysubversions) | |
- @oldsubversions | |
- rhymebots | |
- images (??) | |
## Edge Cases | |
- Umm… | |
- multi-tweet generative (oeuvre is a series) | |
- @FavThingsBot | |
- mimics/actual spambots "passing" (HT @tinysubversions) | |
- "dying, time traveling mimic[s]" (HT @tinysubversions) | |
- @oldsubversions |
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