Twitter Bots

Bots are flooding Twitter with pro-government messages weeks before Malaysia heads into polls

Twitter bots, accounts which can post, like or resend tweets automatically, are not illegal in Malaysia and seem to have less impact on its election campaign.

Twitter reveals that Russia-linked bots retweeted Donald Trump's tweets about 4,70,000 times

Twitter's documents also revealed that the Russian-linked bots retweeted Democrat Hillary Clinton's post less than 50,000 times during the same period.

BJP's Smriti Irani trolls Rahul Gandhi over Twitter following, asks if the Congress VP plans to win polls in Russia

Information and Broadcasting Minister Smriti Irani on Saturday took a dig at Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi over the rise in the number of people retweeting his messages and sought to link this with twitter accounts in Russia, Indonesia and Kazakhstan.

Around 9-15% of active Twitter accounts are bots, says research

Between nine and 15 per cent of active Twitter accounts are autonomous entities known as social bots, new research has found.

More than 350,000 fake accounts are lying dormant on Twitter

A scientist has stumbled upon a massive network of fake Twitter accounts - with the largest consisting of over 350,000 profiles - which may have been used to forge number of followers, send spam and boost interest in trending topics.

Hillary vs Trump: Most of the election chatter online by Twitter bots, says study

A new study by Alessandro Bessi and Emilio Ferrara, University of Southern California researchers reveal that about one-fifth of the Twitter chatter was by bots.

Twitter 'bots' make up to 23 million active users

Four more years: Obama's tweet is most retweeted ever

The US President has been re-elected in the 2012 election but it seems he has more Twitter bots, aka fake accounts/automated accounts following him on the micro-blogging site.

Four more years: Obama's tweet is most retweeted ever

The US President has been re-elected in the 2012 election but it seems he has more Twitter bots, aka fake accounts/automated accounts following him on the micro-blogging site.

Study shows Robots crowd Twitter brand profiles

Up to 46 percent of Twitter followers of companies with active profiles could be generated by robots, or bots, a study by Marco Camisani Calzolari ...