Scaling-Laws of Human Broadcast Communication Enable Distinction between Human, Corporate and Robot Twitter Users

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Tavares, Gabriela ^a   Faisal, Aldo ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BAYES THEOREM; BEHAVIOR; CLASSIFIER; DATA MINING; DECISION MAKING; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; PEER GROUP; PROBABILITY; ROBOTICS; SCALING LAW; SOCIAL MEDIA; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; TELECOMMUNICATION; TIME; TIME INTERVAL; TWITTER;

ALGORITHMS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMMUNICATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECISION MAKING; HUMANS; INFORMATION SEEKING BEHAVIOR; MODELS, STATISTICAL; SOCIAL MEDIA; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84879739780     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0065774     Document Type: Article

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