Thursday, 2 December 2010

Why 10% of Your Friends on Twitter and Facebook Will Be Nonhuman in Five Years

Image by Eneas via FlickrThat's not to say we'll be tweeting with zombies or playing FarmVille with ET. Gartner predicts the coming of "social bots"--automated tools used by brands and organizations to engage consumers.

"Efforts to systematize and automate social engagement will result in the rise of social bots--automated software agents that can handle, to varying degrees, interaction with

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