Online Human-Bot Interactions: Detection, Estimation, and Characterization · HackerPapers discussions

Online Human-Bot Interactions: Detection, Estimation, and Characterization — mentioned by luminiferous

Fri, 02 Jun 2017 22:19:00 GMT

I suspect it's because the Twitter bots inflate the user count of Twitter. It seems that even though Twitter's monetization is not the greatest, their valuation mostly comes from the number of users on Twitter. The reasoning process seems to be something like, "Twitter doesn't make a lot of money right now, but they have the ear of some 300 million users, and that's going to be valuable in the future when they get their monetization story correct, right?" And so TWTR prices are kept afloat. Bots probably degrade the user experience of Twitter quite a bit, but if Twitter aggressively bans all…

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Online Human-Bot Interactions: Detection, Estimation, and Characterization — HN submission

Mon, 13 Mar 2017 10:52:17 GMT

Up to 15% of Twitter Accounts Are Fake: Study

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Online Human-Bot Interactions: Detection, Estimation, and Characterization — HN submission

Sun, 12 Mar 2017 10:49:53 GMT

Online Human-Bot Interactions: Detection, Estimation, and Characterization

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Online Human-Bot Interactions: Detection, Estimation, and Characterization — HN submission

Fri, 10 Mar 2017 21:52:18 GMT

Online Human-Bot Interactions: Detection, Estimation, and Characterization

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