What’s a Twitter bot? A Twitter bot is nothing more than a program that automatically posts messages to Twitter and/or auto-retweets the messages of others. The rates of pro-Clinton bot tweets, by contrast, were 22 percent during the first debate and 25 percent during the second. In fact, Trump bots tend to be more sophisticated than Clinton ones, utilizing hashtags and including pictures that make them more persuasive. During the first debate, pro-Trump bots focused on Clinton’s email scandal and Benghazi; during the second, they honed in on the whole “I’ll-send-her-to-jail” thing.

Source: Washington Post October 19, 2016 22:26 UTC