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honksillet on Sept 7, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Fixing Twitter

It is incredibly easy to set up a bot in twitter. (Slightly hard since the API v1.1, but still easy.) If an account is attached to a bot, there should be a small icon in all it's tweet to indicate that.

richmarr on Sept 7, 2015 [–]

How would you enforce that? Genuine question. Is there a reliable-enough-to-be-useful way to distinguish between types of API client?

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