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If you have not tweeted.. you are excluded from this analysis. A spam account is gonna spam right? But some real users of twitter may only tweet once a year. T
by vorpalhex 4y ago
If you have not tweeted.. you are excluded from this analysis.
A spam account is gonna spam right? But some real users of twitter may only tweet once a year. This study just doesn't include you. It isn't saying you are spam, just not including you in the count.
- mintplant 4y agoThe population of accounts that tweet is going to contain a larger proportion of spammers than the population of active Twitter accounts. Presenting the former as the latter is disingenuous.
- nickff 4y agoThere are probably many 'fake' or bot accounts that don't tweet; they'd be used to prop up the 'likes' or views of other accounts, either customers paying for exposure, or other bots.
- minsc_and_boo 4y agoOr are simply used to bypass Twitter's semi-aggressive login wall. Anecdotally, I know plenty of non-robot people who have twitter accounts but don't tweet.
- ahahahahah 4y agoYeah, but it's just clickbait then. An honest title would be "We sampled users that act like bots on Twitter and found out that lots of them were bots".