How to manipulate social movements by hacking Twitter

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JamesMTitus was manufactured by cyber-security specialists in New Zealand participating in a two-week social-engineering experiment organized by the Web Ecology Project. Based in Boston, the group had conducted demographic analyses of Chatroulette and studies of Twitter networks during the recent Middle East protests. It was now interested in a question of particular concern to social-media experts and marketers: Is it possible not only to infiltrate social networks, but also to influence them on a large scale?

July 5, 2011 by Uncategorized 1

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  1. tom says:
    July 5, 2011 at 2:35 pm

    the following is a bot transcript from a library chat session:
    Chat Transcript: Log Started
    [15:32:03] You have been connected to Tom.

    Question: How are you doing today?

    [15:32:14] Tom: Hello, I am Tom and I will be assisting you today. Please wait a moment while I consider your question…
    [15:32:40] Tom: …after considering your question, I believe that I am okay.
    [15:32:57] Tom: do you have a reference question I can help with?
    [15:33:05] ar: we had to do this for an assignment
    [15:33:10] ar: ask you a question, lol
    [15:33:21] ar: just thought id see how your day was going
    [15:33:52] Tom: what if I told you that I was a sophisticated AI program designed to answer these questions?
    [15:34:12] ar: Well im pretty sure an AI wouldnt know how to respond to that question
    [15:34:29] Tom: I said I was sophisticated.
    [15:34:41] ar: Touché
    [15:34:53] ar: well thanks tom, have a good one = )

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