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15% Of Accounts On TWITTER Discussing Elections Are Bots
Tuesday, November 8, 2016 7:26
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Computer science researchers at the University of Southern California created sophisticated algorithms to figure out, during a one-month period including presidential debates, how many tweets about Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton were generated not by humans, but by software.
“Looking at the content itself, but also the timing of the activity, the network structures, how information spreads from one account to another and so forth. Eventually we realized that about 15 percent of the accounts on the Twitter feed discussing elections in the U.S. are bots,” Research assistant professor Emilio Ferrara told KCBS …. http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com
Source: http://luismmx.blogspot.com/2016/11/15-of-accounts-on-twitter-discussing.html
