On December 6 2011, a number of pro-Kremlin activists launched an attack on Twitter using bots which posted messages with a hashtag #Ñ‚Ñ€Ð¸ÑƒÐ¼Ñ„Ð°Ð»ÑŒÐ½Ð°Ñ (Triumfalnaya). These bots posted a range of national slogans and crude language. With a rate of up to 10 messages per second, these bots succeeded in blocking the actual message feed with […]