Tweets generating instant traffic

[NinaMcI]

I've noticed that when I paste my site link into my twitter feeds, it generates instant traffic in the form of "guests"onto my site...as in immediately after I tweet. Surely, this traffic can't be real people because it's too quick. If this this traffic isn't robots, then what is it?

 

[Mouth]

Aliens monitor tweets too!?
Seriously though, if it's not real people and it's not bots who would you think it is? I'm fairly sure it's bots - not web cache spider bots, but tweet bots such as tweetdeck etc. ?

 

[Paul B]

There are numerous robots related to Twitter.

 

[NinaMcI]

In that case, why do my forum stats show them as "guests" rather than robots?

 

[Paul B]

Not all robots are defined in the code.

 

[DRaver]

Is it possible to add definitions for robots?

 

[Paul B]

There is an add-on for it.

 

[emmy]

Not all robots are defined in the code.

Wow..i thought those are humans too. Though, they happen quick immediately you tweet

 

[dawg]

Wow..i thought those are humans too. Though, they happen quick immediately you tweet

When i first started my forums i got exited when the same thing happened with FaceBook. I also thought i had people showing up lol turns out it was just the like buttons and their robots