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US elections see the rise of the Twitter bots
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3rd November 2016, 08:44
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| [M] Reviewer  Join Date: May 2010 Location: Romania
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 |  US elections see the rise of the Twitter bots Researchers have shown that the lead candidates in both the US elections are relying on Twitter bots to get out their message. Researchers demonstrated in their analysis of Twitter traffic during the first presidential debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump and found huge numbers of active bots which were being used to amplify support on Twitter. Samuel Woolley, director of research at Political Bots, said automated accounts were tweeting messages with hashtags associated with the candidates. For example, #makeamericagreatagain or #draintheswamp for Trump; #imwithher for Clinton. The numbers were huge – one third of all tweets using pro-Trump hashtags were created by bots and one fifth of all Clinton hashtags were generated by automated accounts. http://www.techeye.net/news/us-elect...e-twitter-bots |
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