'Botivist' calls you to arms

摘要

Put down your megaphone and pick up your smartphone. A program nicknamed Botivist rallies people to social causes via Twitter. If you're an activist, spreading your message to like-minded people can be tedious work, says Saiph Savage at West Virginia University in Morgantown. Bots can take those tasks off your plate. "You no longer have to invest time searching for people and trying to get them to do actions for you or with you," she says.