{"id":97,"date":"2011-10-26T12:00:42","date_gmt":"2011-10-26T10:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.christiaannieuwlaat.nl\/?p=97"},"modified":"2011-10-26T12:00:42","modified_gmt":"2011-10-26T10:00:42","slug":"why-i-hate-twitter-bots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.christiaannieuwlaat.nl\/index.php\/2011\/10\/26\/why-i-hate-twitter-bots\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I hate Twitter-bots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Honestly I like twitter, and I do think it&#8217;s usefull. But there is one thing I really don&#8217;t like&#8230;. twitter-bots.<\/p>\n<p>As a developer myself, I like to automate as much things as possible to get things done. But when I automate things, I make sure they work like they should. I wish all developers who create automated twitter apps would do the same.<\/p>\n<p>For instance, when I posted on my old blog that it&#8217;s content will move here, I&#8217;ve nearly instantly got followed by a company who sells rugs. Why? Because I&#8217;ve used the words &#8216;<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">moving to<\/span>&#8216; in my post ( which was automatically posted on my twitter account \ud83d\ude09 ). This is in my opionion an excellent example of &#8216;how it shouldn&#8217;t be done&#8217;. And as a result I&#8217;ve red-flagged this follower ( I hate email\/twitter\/etc -spam as much as anyone else ).<\/p>\n<p>A nice tip for all developers that use written language as a trigger to do something: <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Please look at the context of the keywords you&#8217;ve found before doing something.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Honestly I like twitter, and I do think it&#8217;s usefull. But there is one thing I really don&#8217;t like&#8230;. twitter-bots. As a developer myself, I like to automate as much things as possible to get things done. But when I automate things, I make sure they work like they should. 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