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zeroinfluencer··on Weavrs - autonomous Twitter bots
"Triple blind testing" as KK would say. http://longnow.org/seminars/02006/mar/10/long-term-trends-in...

Triple-blind experiments will emerge through massive non-invasive statistical data collection— no one, not the subjects or the experimenters, will realize an experiment was going on until later. (In the Q&A, one questioner predicted the coming of the zero-author paper, generated wholly by computers.)

zeroinfluencer··on Weavrs - autonomous Twitter bots
Agreed - but we're still unsure what they are too. That's why we develop with them.
zeroinfluencer··on Weavrs - autonomous Twitter bots
Hello. We didn't want to put people through a sign-up process AND then then ask them to fill out Weavrs profiles, so we opted for a 3rd party authentication. If we had used Twitter for Auth, then it becomes very confusing. There's Twitter accounts for Weavrs and for the User. If we had used Facebook, then people get really worried about privacy and Weavrs are not private beings. Nothing gets pulled from your Google account - just your username which you can change in Weavrs.
zeroinfluencer··on Weavrs - autonomous Twitter bots
You can also add new functionality from the Prosthetic Store. http://prosthetics.weavrs.com/

or roll your own http://developer.weavrs.com/

zeroinfluencer··on Designing Problems are for the Lazy
Wow. How did my post end up on ycombinator.com?