How Many Bots in Russian Troll Tweets?
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Highlights：
• There is a continuous rise in using social bots and trolls in Twitter and other online social networks.
• Social bots are not homogeneous; they are used for different goals which social bots’ characteristics.
• Social bots can be more active than humans in creating tweets, but they can be less active in some other activities related to Twitter-account interactions with friends and followers or how often such accounts change their status.
• Although social bots can vary in behavior based on their goals, content-based analysis indicates that social bots tend to be more formal in their language in comparison to human accounts, which can be identified through the use of slurs, slang, X-rated words, and the like.
摘要
•There is a continuous rise in using social bots and trolls in Twitter and other online social networks.•Social bots are not homogeneous; they are used for different goals which social bots’ characteristics.•Social bots can be more active than humans in creating tweets, but they can be less active in some other activities related to Twitter-account interactions with friends and followers or how often such accounts change their status.•Although social bots can vary in behavior based on their goals, content-based analysis indicates that social bots tend to be more formal in their language in comparison to human accounts, which can be identified through the use of slurs, slang, X-rated words, and the like.
论文关键词：Botometer;Information credibility,Online social networks,Russian troll tweets;Social bots
论文评审过程：Received 8 January 2020, Revised 11 May 2020, Accepted 13 May 2020, Available online 9 June 2020, Version of Record 9 June 2020.
论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ipm.2020.102303
