lauren@vortex.com
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2017 10:37:03 -0700
via NNSquad http://gizmodo.com/nearly-90-000-sex-bots-invaded-twitter-in-one-of-the-la-1796985630
Last week, Twitter's security team purged nearly 90,000 fake accounts
after outside researchers discovered a massive botnet peddling links to
fake "dating" and "romance" services. The accounts had already generated
more than 8.5 million posts aimed at driving users to a variety of
subscription-based scam websites with promises of -- you guessed it -- hot
Internet sex.