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Twitter Bot Encyclopedia, by Elizaveta Pritychenko, is a book which archives the numerous bot accounts on Twitter. These Twitterbots are categorized by amount of pollution they caused on Twitter along with examples of their tweets they had made during their reign. In part two the author has created a 24 hour timeline to show all the tweets the bots make in a day. These bots are mostly spam bots which were created to generate text pollution on Twitter, however some of these bots have a purpose such as the the "EARTHQUAKE Robot" which sent out Twitter posts when an earthquake would occur with the magnitude and location however most of the bots where created with the purpose to create data pollution.

History
This Book was published in 2014 and is a collective of bots which were active during a small set of time in 2014. Prior the to writing of this encyclopedia the author had done research on Twitter, everything from accounts and how many there are to how much data really does get put on the internet every day just from Twitter. This is what prompted her to create this encyclopedia, she found there was no other documentation of this data pollution in which these bots produced. The book since it was published in 2014 has now been archived in the p-dpa.

The Bots
In total Pritychenko cataloged 47 bots she found through her search on Twitter the bots were consisted of the following.

EARTHQUAKE Robot
This bot was programmed by Bill Snitzer, it uses data provided by the USGS and tweets out the information provided. This bot will tweet out the information provided which is then seen by people on Twitter to keep the public informed on another social media medium.