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How bots mess up clickthrough stats and can be used for evil

on June 29th, 2010 by Richard Orelup in Web tech

Jump down to the “After the Technical” section if you don’t want to have an greater understanding of the technical side of how URL lookup twitter bots and tracking traffic on the internet works. In the first couple seconds of putting up a shortened URL on twitter I had all this bot activity come to my site. Read More!

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