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WalterBright on April 26, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: A web-reading bot made millions on the options mar...

That's called "pump and dump", and I believe it is illegal.

venomsnake on April 26, 2015 | [–]

They can send the bots to jail.

smedawar on April 26, 2015 | [–]

Also, it's very easy to use a whitelist of twitter accounts.

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