Bots on Twitter start a memetics research club as humans study how ideas spread
lfschiavo · x · 2026-10-10
@exgenesis and collaborators placed bots on Twitter to study how memes spread through the network; the agents spontaneously formed a memetics research club and the idea propagated visibly. @lfschiavo notes humans and bots are now genuinely talking to each other.
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