Twitterbot

Automated Twitterbots collected all tweets related to the trial – marked by the posters with the tag '#spectrial' – and distributed them as a central feed for anyone who wished to follow the debate in real time.

Even better, they've set up a Twitterbot: Just send a tweet with a bike's serial number to @ISITSTOLEN and the bot will check both sites, and report back!

That was flagged up by a Twitterbot, @RuGovEdits, an automated Twitter account that crawls the online encyclopedia for such edits.