Bots that feed on Trump’s tweets banned by Twitter

Social media giants, Twitter has decided to take action against some of Trump’s most-rabid automated followers by suspending them.

This week, the platform targeted several bots known for immediately responding to Donald Trump’s tweets with replies containing spam and memes, reports Motherboard.

The accounts include @patrioticpepe, @RichiJMiller, and @ErikaPiris.

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Twitter has been on a bit of a suspension spree of late, and its latest targets are Trump bots.

For those unfamiliar with the term, Twitter is home to tens of millions of automated accounts, known as bots.

These types of accounts come in various shapes and sizes — some simply reply to or retweet accounts that use select words or phrases, others bulk follow users, and some tweet out spam links.

Bots are sometimes programmed to congregate around more popular users of the service and one such of such profiles they’ve increasingly targeted is that of Trump.

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