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How brain-amputated developers created the social media plague

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In rare cases when a non-bot tries to participate in Twitter, the uber-bot [type T] prevents the whole bot network from negative impacts by serving a 503 error to the homunculus’ browser. This malicious piece of code doesn’t obey robots.txt, and doesn’t cache results. It can get worse when a URI gets retweeted often.