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title: "💭 Reply guy"
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date: 2026-02-23
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      <div class="embed-card-description">The latest scourge of Twitter is AI bots that reply to your tweets with generic, banal commentary slop, often accompanied by a question to &#34;drive engagement&#34; and waste as much …</div>
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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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