Twitterbot

A program used to produce automated posts on the microblogging service Twitter; by extension, a Twitter account featuring posts produced by such a program.

Noun

  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.
    • 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. - 2013,...
    • 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, Pax Rasmussen, “News and ideas for a healthier,...
    • That was flagged up by a Twitterbot, @RuGovEdits, an automated Twitter account that crawls the online encyclopedia for such edits. - 2014 July 24, Toby Manhire, “The Wikipedia editors rumbled as government staffers”, in...

Origin

From Twitter + -bot.

Forms

Twitterbots