Randomly generated tweet by bot prompts investigation by Dutch police

Police investigate after bot created by web developer Jeffry van der Goot tweets ‘I seriously want to kill people’ When Twitter user @jeffrybooks tweeted saying “I seriously want to kill people” at a fashion and cosmetics convention happening at Amsterdam, the Dutch police took the threat seriously.Jeffry van der Goot, a 28-year-old web developer who created the account, received a visit from the police in short order. The only problem was that Van der Goot – who is non-binary and goes