Historical clue formulations

• Phony social media follower — 2026-04-05
• Online automaton — 2026-02-11
• Spam spewer — 2026-02-09
• Nonhuman source of spam — 2025-11-13
• ChatGPT, for one — 2025-11-04
• Spam spreader — 2024-12-23
• X follower, perhaps — 2024-12-21
• Many a customer service assistant, nowadays — 2024-10-28
• Online chatter? — 2024-06-29
• One stymied by security questions, say — 2024-04-13
• Customer service "assistant," at times — 2023-12-10
• Captcha target — 2023-10-29
• - — 2023-10-12
• Web crawler, of a sort — 2023-04-11
• Automated tweeter — 2023-02-15
• Nonhuman internet "account holder" — 2022-12-27
• Program that spits out spam — 2022-07-04
• Poster impostor? — 2021-08-06
• Spam caller, e.g. — 2021-02-09
• Spam spewer — 2020-08-31
• Spam sender — 2020-08-02
• One making a malicious attack, maybe — 2020-05-29
• Nonhuman Twitter account — 2019-10-23
• Spam generator — 2019-07-31
• Automated producer of spam — 2019-07-09
• Message-spewing program — 2019-07-01
• Frequent Twitter poster — 2018-01-14
• Many an online nuisance — 2017-08-26
• What may have a strong net effect? — 2017-07-07
• Web crawler — 2017-06-12
• Droid — 2017-03-06
• Web crawler, e.g. — 2017-01-02
• Turing test participant — 2016-05-19
• Certain sci-fi fighter — 2015-03-12
• Google worker — 2015-02-27
• Droid — 2014-03-31
• Bit of Google programming — 2014-01-12
• Ending with spam — 2013-06-09
• Web crawler — 2012-08-25
• Sci-fi sidekick, maybe — 2012-06-05
• Autonomous computer program — 2012-05-09
• Droid — 2009-11-23
• Automaton, for short — 2009-06-29
• Sci-fi sidekick, maybe — 2008-07-23
• Science fair creation, briefly — 2008-06-04
• Droid — 2008-03-10
• Plant sci. — 2007-04-08
• 9-Across, e.g., informally — 2006-09-13
• Study of plants: Abbr. — 2005-06-13
• 'Droid — 2001-11-10