15% of accounts discussing US election on Twitter are bots

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“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.

More importantly, Ferrara says, these bots generated about 20-percent of the entire conversation.

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This is Emilio's own Twitter profile, which (one hopes) is not a bot:

https://twitter.com/jabawack

Here's where he publishes his findings:

http://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/7090/56...

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