AI and deep learning can now help you be more popular on Twitter

What is the point of Twitter? The 11-year-old microblogging platform is a social network, a broadcasting tool, a public relations platform, a joke incubator, and a news aggregator. It's a daunting medium, but with the help of a little AI, it doesn't have to be. At least, that's the premise of Post Intelligence, a social media assistant tool launched this week by a pair of former Google executives. "We're dubbing it the world's first AI-based media assistant," says Bindu Reddy, co-founder and CEO of Post Intelligence.