Automated accounts post the majority of tweeted links to popular websites across a range of domains | Pew Research Center

April 5, 2018

Bots in the Twittersphere

Automated accounts post the majority of tweeted links to popular websites across a range of domains

Automated accounts post the majority of tweeted links to popular websites across a range of domains

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Automated accounts post the majority of tweeted links to popular websites across a range of domains

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Bots in the Twittersphere
Suspected bot accounts share more links to popular political sites with an ideologically centrist or mixed audience
Automated accounts post the majority of tweeted links to popular websites across a range of domains
The most-active Twitter bots produce a large share of the links to popular news and current events websites
Automated Twitter accounts post the vast majority of tweeted links to popular news and current events sites that do not offer original reporting