The latest scourge of Twitter is AI bots that reply to your tweets with generic, banal commentary slop, often accompanied by a question to “drive engagement” and waste as much of your time as possible.

I just found out (https://twitter.com/simonw/status/2025918174894673986) that the category name for this genre of software is reply guy tools. Amazing.

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