Gregory Burkart
The “Medieval Death Bot” is Creeping the Hell out of Twitter
We’ve previously visited some of the gruesome, macabre and morbidly fascinating aspects of the European Middle Ages in some of our historical features [like this delightful list of witch-hunt torture methods], so if you’ve read those — or similar historical accounts of brief life and messy death in that era — you might not think […]
Gregory Burkart
Why is This Twitter Account Randomly Summoning Demons?
Regular Twitter users are already quite familiar with the universal presence of twitterbots — user accounts whose tweets are entirely driven by an algorithm, instead of by a real person — and the for the most part, the experience ranges from hilariously classic to just plain annoying. But every once in a while, a ‘bot does […]
