{"id":202438,"date":"2017-03-13T07:32:47","date_gmt":"2017-03-13T05:32:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=202438"},"modified":"2017-03-13T07:34:14","modified_gmt":"2017-03-13T05:34:14","slug":"bots-run-amok-on-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/202438-bots-run-amok-on-twitter.html","title":{"rendered":"Bots run amok on Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/pdf\/1703.03107.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>New research suggests<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0that up to 15% of all active Twitter accounts are bots, many of which exhibit human-like behaviour.<\/p>\n<p>A study by the University of Southern California said a growing amount of social media content is generated by bots.<\/p>\n<p>The study leveraged over 1,000 features extracted from public data and metadata about users: friends, tweet content and sentiment, network patterns, and activity time series.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur estimates suggest that between 9% and 15% of active Twitter accounts are bots,\u201d said the researchers.<\/p>\n<p>Analysis of content flows revealed retweet and mention strategies adopted by bots to interact with different target groups.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUsing clustering analysis, we characterise several subclasses of accounts, including spammers, self-promoters, and accounts that post content from connected applications.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/201014-twitter-launches-new-filtering-options.html\">Twitter launches new filtering options<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New research suggests that up to 15% of all active Twitter accounts are bots, many of which exhibit human-like behaviour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":144773,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[27917,405],"class_list":["post-202438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-bots","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202438"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202438"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":202450,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202438\/revisions\/202450"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}