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Twitter botnet quotes ‘Star Wars’ from the middle of the sea

Along with trolls and bullies, one of Twitter’s biggest problems is bots — automated accounts that puff up follower numbers, troll users or turn fake news into trending topics. Researchers investigating botnets found maybe the strangest one ever: 350,000 that tweet only random Star Warsquotes from Windows Phone devices. While that’s actually kind of amusing, the researchers say that it…