Dozens Of Tech Bigwigs Friend Facebook Spambot

jfruhlinger writes: "If you've Facebook or Twitter, you're almost certainly familiar with "bimbots" — accounts that have profile pics of attractive women, but seem to exist only send send spam links with varying degrees of subtlety. Henry Copland, the founder of BlogAds, tracks the social network of one such Facebook bot, and finds that she's friends with a long list of influential tech and media folks. Copland also tracks down the origin of the photo that accompanies the account."