Local TV station sets up Twitter bot to thank followers - predictable hillarity ensues
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Apparently WKYC, channel 3 in Cleveland, set up a Twitter bot to automatically thank its followers and had to take the account private for a while to clean up the mess.
Picture of tweets including embedded NSFW video (click at your own risk): https://i.imgur.com/TWMnuMm.jpg
https://twitter.com/search?q=@wkycweather&ref_src=twsrc^google|twcamp^serp|twgr^search
[removed embedded picture for extreme NSFW content - bz]
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@el_heffe
If being hacked doesn’t work out for them, I hear that blaming a staffer for porn vid tweets is all the rage these days.
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@el_heffe You need to add a blank line after the </ summary> for stuff to embed.
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@anonymous234 said in Local TV station sets up Twitter bot to thank followers - predictable hillarity ensues:
@el_heffe You need to add a blank line after the </ summary> for stuff to embed.
Thanks. I can never remember how to make that work properly.
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How did the bot manage to embed a video? That seems like the worst Twitter bot idea yet. They should have known that porn would get embedded.
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@el_heffe said in Local TV station sets up Twitter bot to thank followers - predictable hillarity ensues:
Moderately NSFW
Very NSFW.
@polygeekery said in Local TV station sets up Twitter bot to thank followers - predictable hillarity ensues:
How did the bot manage to embed a video? That seems like the worst Twitter bot idea yet. They should have known that porn would get embedded.
Overeager oneboxing plus bad input sanitization?
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@maciejasjmj I didn't think of that. Shitty sanitization plus a username with a URL in it.