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    April 5, 2018
    Bots in the Twittersphere

    Automated Twitter accounts post the vast majority of tweeted links to popular news and current events sites that do not offer original reporting

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    Automated Twitter accounts post the vast majority of tweeted links to popular news and current events sites that do not offer original reporting
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    Bots in the Twittersphere
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    In a sample of 206 accounts coded by a third party, a threshold near 0.43 produces the highest level of accuracy in classifying bot accounts
    Verified Twitter accounts have little impact on numbers of automated accounts shared
    Including or excluding verified accounts exceeding a Botometer score of 0.43 does not affect results much
    Random effects analysis of bot shares by content
    Random effects analysis of bot shares by audience score
    The most accurate Botometer threshold for classifying bot accounts is below 0.5, based on a sample of 100 hand-coded accounts
    Inter-coder testing scores
    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
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