Dozens of Tech Bigwigs Friend Facebook Spambot

jfruhlinger writes "If you've used Facebook or Twitter, you're almost certainly familiar with 'bimbots' — accounts that have profile pics of attractive women, but seem to exist only to send send spam links with varying degrees of subtlety. Henry Copeland, the founder of BlogAds, tracks the social network of one such Facebook bot, and finds that she's friends with a long list of influential tech and media folks. Copeland also tracks down the origin of the photo that accompanies the account."

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[gstoddart]

The TFA is now 404'd...

Now there is truly "nothing to see here, move along".

I got "Internal Server Error", which is a 500 ... maybe if we keep trying, we can collect the whole set. :-P