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I knew I'd get downvoted for stating the fact...

The problem with that Twitter bot is that which ever side it promoted, it's still stating "facts" without citation (as I have done). That's the problem with Twitter: it's useless as a platform for DISCUSSION.

The bot author is a spambot, not a chatbot, and is another reason to stay away from that website.

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I glanced over the bot's Twitter stream and it appeared that every response it sent out included a headline/quote and a link. None of the tweets were simply assertions without a link to research or an article to back them up.

Apologies, I thought the text displayed was all the twitter feed was sending.

Twitter still sucks, though.

Actually all of them are because it is just linking to random papers without any understanding of context-- it can't have understanding because it is a bot.

This is actually a very accurate simulation of attempting to debate with a global warming zealot.

The bot may have problems, but I don't think its problem is that Twitter and Hacker News are two very different venues.

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