zaxm | 5 years ago | on: Analysis of 200M tweets discussing coronavirus suggests 45%-60% come from bots
without peer review or even an arxiv link these numbers might as well be pulled out of thin air
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zaxm | 5 years ago | on: Analysis of 200M tweets discussing coronavirus suggests 45%-60% come from bots
Its pretty crazy that you assumed the research was factual just because it was in NPR / marketwatch.
zaxm | 5 years ago | on: Analysis of 200M tweets discussing coronavirus suggests 45%-60% come from bots
Bunch of threads on twitter from expert researchers on how this study is bogus. The main point is that there is zero paper or even a blog post that can be referenced to see if this statistic is true.
* https://twitter.com/ngleicher/status/1264614994475315200
* https://twitter.com/benimmo/status/1265329734705197056
* https://twitter.com/alexstamos/status/1264643202293751808
* https://twitter.com/3r1nG/status/1264567090742206464
(edit to add more examples of counterclaims to this "research")
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