Or that sci-fi predicted it (For The Win)

Just another artifact of the fact that advertiser financed businesses is not robust. And the end of them is likely coming nearer.

There are a ton of things you can do with a keyboard natively on Android. I would imagine these use that plus a bit of software to emulate “real” movements, like the flicking down to scroll

Sure with like teamviewer or similar app. I’d guess they’re running the bot on a computer which is remote controlling those phones

Yes, you can control the phone programmatically if you unlock it and put it into dev mode.

If it’s just a browser you can connect to chrome devtools via web socket and send commands

All of my Twitter followers are thot-bots. I don’t even get the good ones that have pictures of cats in their bio. Just poorly photoshopped Kim Kardashian body swaps.