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http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/05/are-you-following-a-bot/8448/ How to manipulate social movements by hacking Twitter O ne day last February, a Twitter user in California named Billy received a tweet from @JamesMTitus, identified in his profile as a “24 year old dude” from Christchurch, New Zealand, who had the avatar of a tabby cat. “If you could bring one character to life from your favorite book, who would it be?,” @JamesMTitus asked. Billy tweeted back, “Jesus,” to which @JamesMTitus replied: “honestly?

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Researchers' illustration of how their "socialbots" attack social networks. Programs designed to resemble humans infiltrated Facebook recently and made off with 250 gigabytes of personal information belonging to thousands of the social network's users, researchers said in an academic paper released today. The eight-week study was designed to evaluate how vulnerable online social networks are to large-scale infiltrations by programs designed to mimic real users, researchers from the University of British Columbia Vancouver said in the paper (PDF), titled "The Socialbot Network: When bots socialize for fame and money." http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-20128808-83/socialbots-steal-250gb-of-user-data-in-facebook-invasion/

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In the three years since its launch, Alior Bank has secured a significant position in the Polish banking sector. Virtual Assistant on Alior Bank website is designed to answer customers' questions about creating online account and helps them find essential information. In addition, the Virtual Agent is knowledgeable about the most common issues that users may have with online banking. http://www.chatbots.org/

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[French] Harumi est un chatbot programmable fonctionnant avec la suite open office, prêt à être utilisé en français. Il est disponible pour le public depuis l'été 2010. Il est possible d'éditer sa mémoire pour le faire fonctionner dans d'autres langages que le français. Il a été programmé sous delphi et est disponible en téléchargement depuis l'été 2010. Le cerveau d'Harumi est très léger au départ, presque vide en fait.