Donald Trump has used Twitter more aggressively than any other political figure in the short history of the service. He has built a large and pugnacious fanbase that will do his bidding and shout down anyone or anything that challenges him. Even if it’s a bot.
“A Twitter Bot Is Beating Trump Fans”
by Ben Collins
The Daily Beast
June 14, 2016
Many Donald Trump supporters on Twitter spent Tuesday afternoon unknowingly arguing with a robot.
@Assbott, which mostly tweets about professional wrestling and baseball, was created to immediately reply to Trump”™s tweets, then respond with nonsense sentences to any user who interacts with it. But many of the presumptive Republican nominee”™s fans didn”™t recognize it wasn”™t a person and continued fighting with it until they finally abandoned the conversation. About 10 users per hour continued tweeting at @Assbott well into Tuesday night.
@Assbott is the brainchild of a Kentucky man named Forrest, who identifies himself as @Nasboat on Twitter and declined to give his last name.
“The bot is just a mishmash of my tweets. @AwfulJack is the one who started the account. I”™m clueless on the technical side,” he told The Daily Beast. “There had been a few other bots made from other users we know and follow, and I thought it was a funny concept and wanted one of my own. I sent him my archive, and he got it up and running.” Read more.