Chatbot
He was asking for a dialogue on a contemporary issue weeding through the garbage of rhetoric. Close to the end of his questions, I began to feel he was disingenuous because he was asking and not listening nor interacting.
He ended the series of questions with: “Ha ha! In case anybody thinks they were having a conversation, my tweets from 10:05 – 10:35 were all pre-scheduled earlier with Hootsuite.”
I not only unfollowed him but I blocked him.
We are told Twitter is about engagement, about interactivity, about participation.
Hootsuite says:
Schedule Tweets
Provide rich, nourishing content to your followers at any time of day using the HootSuite tweet scheduler. Pre-schedule anything you like, from radio programming to birthday well-wishes. Or, tweet live!
and one can see a timed tweet that is a birthday post or something of that sort might be useful. But what’s the point of a series of timed posts? At the very least such posts should say ‘autoposted via hootsuite (or something)’ so others don’t or aren’t inclined to interact with a bot. Perhaps I over-responded but the experience of talking to a bot was humiliating.
In the posters defense – he came back later and personally replied but by that time I was disgusted by the manipulative use of the device as well as his control of the ‘conversation’ so I blocked and unfollowed.
As the gods say: ‘I will Not Be Toyed With!”
How can there be anything posted to Twitter than cannot wait for the author’s actual presence? What are we doing with autoposts?
How do you feel about autoposting? Why? What’s to be gained? Do you autopost?
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I Chat, Therefore I Am…