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I wish one could get the dataset and see how many bots some specific people, like politicians, might have had as followers.
by emmanuelb 8y ago
I wish one could get the dataset and see how many bots some specific people, like politicians, might have had as followers.
- ebursztein 8y agoWe are going to make the dataset public with the paper. I am happy to share it privately in the mean time.
- oh_sigh 8y agoI find it interesting that the bots preferred Obama, even on a percentage-of-followers basis. What's the explanation? Were Obama's twitter numbers being pumped at some point? Do bots just use Obama's account as a default-follow for legitimacy?
- ortuna 8y agomight be the function of the default follow feature and when they were created