💭 Reply guy
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!https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/23/reply-guy/#atom-everything

Date: February 23, 2026

Reply guy
 The latest scourge of Twitter is AI bots that reply to your tweets with generic, banal commentary slop, often accompanied by a question to "drive engagement" and waste as much …
 Simon Willison’s Weblog · simonwillison.net [1]

I had no idea there were such things as "reply guy" as a service. I can see this as a really genuine thing where brands want to genuinely engage with their communities, quickly being taken over by slop bros to ruin everything.

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 This post is a thought [2]. It's a short note that I make
 about someone else's content online #thoughts [3]

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[1]: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/23/reply-guy/#atom-everything
[2]: /thoughts/
[3]: /tags/thoughts/