Help Robots Take Over The Internet: The Socialbots 2011 Competition : Web Ecology Project

HELP ROBOTS TAKE OVER INTERNET
WIN $500 HOO-MAN DOLLARS

There’s been much done, and even more written about online influence and community. But it’s time to see who really has the biggest boots in town.

Today, we’re glad to announce the first-ever competitive event in the large scale robotic influence of online social groups. SOCIALBOTS 2011.

Teams will program bots to control user accounts on Twitter in a brutal, two-week, all-out, no-holds-barred battle to influence an unsuspecting cluster of 500 online users to do their bidding. Points will be given for connections created by the bots and the social behaviors they are able to elicit among the targets. All code to be made open-source under the MIT license.

It’s blood sport for internet social science/network analysis nerds. Winner to be rewarded $500, unending fame and glory, and THE SOCIALBOTS CUP.

Registration fee is $25 per team, payable by check or PayPal. Teams should sign up BY JANUARY 8th by sending an e-mail with contact information to tim.hwang@webecologyproject.org.

Currently, the schedule is as follows, though this is subject to change:
January 8: Registration Deadline
January 9 – January 22: Task Released and Bot Programming Begins
January 23 – February 6: Competition Live
February 7: Winner Announced

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I came across this competition on the Doc Searls harvard weblog and I am looking forward to any updates during the competition and learning more about the winner. Any chance you will publish any type of statistics or information regarding the competition? I am very interested from more of an analytical stand point. Great idea!
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So, has it started? We want to meet the teams!
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