Part of the process for making normalizing them was to give them friends to follow and faces to present.
What I wasn't expecting was gratitude. Below is a sampler of Twitter users who are appreciating the RTweeting, which is not so much of a surprise - everyone likes to be ReTweeted, don't they?
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lindsay_megafan Hello @bmxbarry! I am following you now :)
SMOOTHinHD RT @krankychloe: "RT @SMOOTHINHD hi mon.. didnt think we were gonna meet again but q, wat is funnier than flamedout homo run http://ur1. ...
Live_for_Films #ff Enter the Dragons @skutterdan1701 @rodti @shiverspt @felix_freeman @darktess @kippermitten @ianvisits @travisbead
thisnewz @DGR_m3_01 thanks for the RT - funny how our DUI content is the most popular!
Zigzagpaz Thank you for all the people who retweeted me last week @BoBarnum1 @TheOrganicActorm @lomb @DGR_m3_02 @websitetoptip @nwchpt4me
TaraRoss I am a little overdue in thanking @jimmmo @RightKlik @olsonleif and @GregWHoward for some RTs and recommendations. Thanks, guys.
thepoetweets @ohlaylala thank you for the rewind :)
WhatMotivates @eve_dorcas Thank you Eve for the RT! We appreciate it.
Now, I'm not saying the DGRs are passing any Turing Test, but they do seem to be socially acceptable.
The Turing test is a proposal for a test of a machine's ability to demonstrate intelligence. It proceeds as follows: a human judge engages in a natural language conversation with one human and one machine, each of which tries to appear human. All participants are placed in isolated locations. If the judge cannot reliably tell the machine from the human, the machine is said to have passed the test. In order to test the machine's intelligence rather than its ability to render words into audio, the conversation is limited to a text-only channel such as a computer keyboard and screen.
The DGRs are not really participating in a conversation, they're cutting across. Which does seem to be creating (a positive, light hearted) confusion with some people.
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poetryinsepia @DGR_m3_01 err, hello, do i know you?
DriqueLondon @bmxbarry what show your talking about bro
VictoriaRusso @DGR_m3_01 so I statistically make sense to you? lol
YouuAreNotAlone @krankychloe Huh ?
johnsw @krankychloe You're a robot right? Weirdest spam yet.
jwater @krankychloe lol why retweet that?
ThatgirlBrittB @ohlaylala <<<< why in the world or what in the world is this lol
RommiLuvsCheese JoannaRondo9 wow..who is your buddy @bmxbarry that's retweeting? Funny!
I don't think the DGRs should ever be misleading, that is, deny that they are not human, but they do need to be respectful (non pestering), courteous (responsive) and useful (informative & timely).
It's the response article which is tricky - the bots have no sense of meaning, yet, so a casual "you're welcome" or an 'emoticon' reply to any @ messaging, runs the risk of being inappropriate.
One approach to this would be that DGRs only ever ask questions, never answer them. This may sound counter productive, but at their conception, they are research agents not search agents.
What I mean is that they are not harvesting, but relating, to live information - producing messaging that produces identity of 'their' character. They are, perhaps, (Method) actor models.
Bearing in mind, that the DGRs need to exist without a predefined 'script'...
... improvisation is a must have feature.
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