So you all along thought you followed only real people on Twitter? Know now that automated accounts called “bots” can infiltrate the defences of the social networking site and emerge influential too, ...

Researchers at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver used a small array of scripts programmed to pass themselves off as real people to steal 250GB of personal information from Facebook users ...

No mistake about it, you might be a bot. Responding to the number of likes, retweets, upvotes, and comments can be an impulsive act. The bigger the numbers, the bigger the likelihood content will be ...

Automated bots not only can evade detection but also gather more than double an average user's followers and become influential among various social groups. "Over the 30 days during which the ...