07-12-2016 18:58 via theverge.com

Twitter is banning the bots racing to reply to Trump tweets

The space under Donald Trump’s tweets tends to be a cesspool of not only users arguing over his many wild claims but bots vying to reply first. Now, Twitter seems to be moving in to clean up the mess. According to Motherboard, the social network has suspended a number of accounts that automatically respond to the president-elect’s tweets, many of which having garnered thousands of followers by just appearing under his words.
The most prominent of these accounts is reportedly Patrioti
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