There's a certain elegance to the troll here. Knowing that Twitter doesn't moderate racist terms of abuse, and realizing that Uber's Twitter support account is a dumbly overfamiliar auto-response bot, it was easy for someone to make it say anything they wanted it to. And what they wanted it to say was that.
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