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Definition spambot in British English

spambot noun

noun

1

a program designed to collect e-mail addresses from the internet in order to build mailing lists for sending spam

2

a program that collects information from social media and uses it to create popularity

Example

Horse_ebooks is a Twitter spam bot originally set up to promote horse-ebooks.com.

Example

Until further notice (or until Tumblr defeats this spambot plague), I'm being pretty ruthless with new followers.

Definition spambot in British English