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Featherstone, Coral
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2019-10-17T08:59:36Z |
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2019-10-17T08:59:36Z |
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2019-08 |
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Featherstone, C. 2019. South African bot behaviour post the July 2018 Twitter account cull. In: The International Conference on Advances in Big Data, Computing and Data Communication Systems (icABCD 2019), Drakensberg Sun Resort, Winterton, KZN, South Africa, 5-6 August |
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978-15386-9235-6 |
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https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8851039
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DOI: 10.1109/ICABCD.2019.8851039
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http://hdl.handle.net/10204/11177
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Presented at: The International Conference on Advances in Big Data, Computing and Data Communication Systems (icABCD 2019), Drakensberg Sun Resort, Winterton, KZN, South Africa, 5-6 August 2019. Copyright: 2019 IEEE. This is the accepted version of the published item. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future media, including reprinting/republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works, for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted component of this work in other works. |
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World wide, there is a concerning use of social media to sway public opinion through the use of disinformation campaigns. Elections, political decisions such as the Brexit referendum and topics such as vaccination have all been targets of what has come to be known as computational propaganda. Twitter maintainers finally acted on the problem and in July 2018 they suspended millions of fake accounts. Automated accounts, known as bots, are substantially easier to spot and analyse when they are newly created and in the “egg” stage. The culling of accounts therefore provided the perfect opportunity to look for common behaviour. This paper provides an account of the common behaviour seen on a sample of high profile South African focused Twitter accounts in the days following the action by Twitter maintainers to remove abusive accounts. |
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IEEE |
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Workflow;22448 |
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Social media |
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Twitter |
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Micro-blogging |
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Computational propaganda |
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Bots |
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South African bot behaviour post the July 2018 Twitter account cull |
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Conference Presentation |
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dc.identifier.apacitation |
Featherstone, C. (2019). South African bot behaviour post the July 2018 Twitter account cull. IEEE. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/11177 |
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dc.identifier.chicagocitation |
Featherstone, Coral. "South African bot behaviour post the July 2018 Twitter account cull." (2019): http://hdl.handle.net/10204/11177 |
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Featherstone C, South African bot behaviour post the July 2018 Twitter account cull; IEEE; 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/11177 . |
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TY - Conference Presentation
AU - Featherstone, Coral
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DA - 2019-08
DB - ResearchSpace
DP - CSIR
KW - Social media
KW - Twitter
KW - Micro-blogging
KW - Computational propaganda
KW - Bots
LK - https://researchspace.csir.co.za
PY - 2019
SM - 978-15386-9235-6
T1 - South African bot behaviour post the July 2018 Twitter account cull
TI - South African bot behaviour post the July 2018 Twitter account cull
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10204/11177
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