Simon Willison’s Weblog

23rd February 2026

The latest scourge of Twitter is AI bots that reply to your tweets with generic, banal commentary slop, often accompanied by a question to "drive engagement" and waste as much of your time as possible.

I just found out that the category name for this genre of software is reply guy tools. Amazing.

Posted 23rd February 2026 at 1:11 pm

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This is a note by Simon Willison, posted on 23rd February 2026.

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