Sentences with phrase «retweeted by the bots»
Rather than becoming sympathetic to ideas retweeted by the bots, their views became more entrenched.
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They identified human users from social bots by analyzing retweets or mentions, ratio of followers to followees, content and level of emotion.
Despite the sheer volume of Tweets produced by bots, humans still have better quality and more engaging tweets — tweets by human accounts receive on average 19 times more likes and 10 times more retweets than tweets by bot accounts.
With the help of these bots, the number of times the message is retweeted quickly grows exponentially until it is picked up by human account users who continue to disseminate it.
According to a report by the New York Times, bot peddlers have done brisk business on the site, setting up thousands upon thousands of fake accounts to follow and retweet paying customers, sometimes even stealing identities to do it.