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zaxmon Analysis of 200M tweets discussing coronavirus suggests 45%-60% come from bots

without peer review or even an arxiv link these numbers might as well be pulled out of thin air

zaxmon Analysis of 200M tweets discussing coronavirus suggests 45%-60% come from bots

Its pretty crazy that you assumed the research was factual just because it was in NPR / marketwatch.

zaxmon Analysis of 200M tweets discussing coronavirus suggests 45%-60% come from bots

Bunch of threads on twitter from expert researchers on how this study is bogus. The main point is that there is zero paper or even a blog post that can be referenced to see if this statistic is true.

* https://twitter.com/ngleicher/status/1264614994475315200

* https://twitter.com/benimmo/status/1265329734705197056

* https://twitter.com/alexstamos/status/1264643202293751808

* https://twitter.com/3r1nG/status/1264567090742206464

(edit to add more examples of counterclaims to this "research")