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Bots & coordinated campaignsDatasets & evaluation
BotOrNot: A System to Evaluate Social BotsBotOrNot is a publicly available service and API that evaluates whether a Twitter account is controlled by a human or automated bot. Using 1,000+ features across six categories (network, user, friends, temporal, content, sentiment), the system applies Random Forest classification to achieve 0.95 AUC on a labeled dataset of 15k bots and…
Bots & coordinated campaignsDetection methods
DNA-Inspired Online Behavioral Modeling and Its Application to Spambot DetectionProposes a novel methodology to characterize online user behavior using DNA-inspired digital sequences, where each user action (tweet type, content features) is encoded as a character in a string. Applies standard bioinformatic DNA analysis techniques—specifically longest common substring (LCS) analysis—to detect spambots on Twitter by…