Twitter has demonstrated how it uses bots to kill spam

If you think you’re getting less spam on Twitter, you’re right. Twitter has just unveiled BotMaker, a system that lets the social network create anti-spam bot code on the fly. BotMaker can automatically take down pesky spammers, block suspicious links, and flag shady behavior, sometimes, even before the accounts in question have had a chance to send out a single tweet. It’s easy for Twitter engineers to set up rules: if an account is blocked by many people after it tweets, for instance, it will be red flagged.