Neudert's metric is crude, she acknowledges: She labels any account that posts more than 50 tweets a day using certain political
hashtags as a bot.
Not exact matches
Soon after the story broke, Russian botnets unleashed what has now come to be known
as the #Releasethememo campaign, which instantly became a top trending
hashtag among Russian
bots and trolls on Twitter.
The researchers found social
bots were more likely to post
hashtags where people said they quit smoking
as a result of e-cigarette use (#quitsmoking, #health).
The new Russian
bot debate surrounds a
hashtag known
as #releasethememo.
Thirty - four of the
bots tweeted about Merkel a total of 340 times — often inserting anti-Merkel messages into
hashtag games such
as #WLANName (Wi - Fi network name jokes) or #IchLiebeHerbst (I love autumn).