Every
time people go to Twitter to discuss Charlie Sheen’s latest
pronouncement, they pick up new followers with mysterious handles like @kysuvygix and @upysoxy. Those aren’t Basque fans of Two and a Half Men. They’re
Twitter bots—programs that follow real users based on popular keywords like
#winning.
Do
they pose a risk to you? Not as long as you ignore them. The people behind them
are hoping to appeal to your narcissism. If you’re someone who reflexively
follows anyone who follows you, you’ll be inviting spam messages until you
unfollow or block the offending accounts. And if you like to read the
notification emails from new followers, you’ll often find, in the case of the
bots, links to scam pages.MORE HERE
