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.
