Police respond to Twitter bot sending death threat to another Twitter bot

Screen Shot 2015-02-23 at 10.41.15 AMJeffry built himself a harmless little Twitter bot. His intent was to create something that remixed his previous tweets into new — and hopefully coherent — sentences. No big deal, right? Except that when his bot happened to pick up on a tweet from another Twitter bot and made mention of a specific event, the resulting output looked a bit too much like a death threat. Whoops! —Geek.com.

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