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The biggest issue with any "study" like this is the definitions. What is a "bot"? What counts as "inactive"? What about "bots" that aren't "bad bots"? For exam
by nrmitchi 4y ago
The biggest issue with any "study" like this is the definitions. What is a "bot"? What counts as "inactive"?
What about "bots" that aren't "bad bots"? For example, a news organization twitter account that automatically tweets out new articles. This is clearly a "bot", but is it a "fake account"?
Yes, most studies published specify what their own interpretation of these are, those definitions tend to be wildly inconsistent, and make any sort of comparison of the rest of the methodology impossible.