A Large-scale Behavioural Analysis of Bots and Humans on Twitter

Recent research has shown a substantial active presence of bots in online social networks (OSNs). In this article, we perform a comparative analysis of the usage and impact of bots and humans on Twitter—one of the largest OSNs in the world. We collect a large-scale Twitter dataset and define various metrics based on tweet metadata. Using a human annotation task, we assign “bot” and “human” ground-truth labels to the dataset and compare the...