Which users reply to and interact with Twitter social bots

Proceedings - International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence, ICTAI

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 135-144

  Wald, Randall ^a   Khoshgoftaar, Taghi M ^a   Napolitano, Amri ^a   Sumner, Chris ^b  

^a FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Online Privacy Foundation   (United States)

Author keywords

Feature selection; Interaction; Replies; Social bots; Twitter

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS PROJECTS; CLASSIFICATION MODELS; FEATURE RANKING; HUMAN BEHAVIORS; INTERACTION; REPLIES; SOCIAL BOTS; TWITTER;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; FEATURE EXTRACTION; TOOLS;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84897724619     PISSN: 10823409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICTAI.2013.30     Document Type: Conference Paper

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