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Re:Twitter Bots Are a Major Source of Climate Disinformation by Zuider on Saturday January 23, 2021 @12:56PM (#25884537)
You may need to test for confirmation bias. I am sure you and people you know are well behaved and courteous on twitter and social media in general, and so would not trigger any alarms. Have you tried the bot-test on more contentious accounts that you know to be human?
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Re:Twitter Bots Are a Major Source of Climate Disinformation by delecti on Saturday January 23, 2021 @01:40PM (#25884923)
I just checked a few of the more abrasive people I know, both of whom also do a lot of non-quote Retweets, and both also scored quite low (0.4 and 0.1).
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Re:Twitter Bots Are a Major Source of Climate Disinformation by true_religion on Saturday January 23, 2021 @03:34PM (#25885799)
If only this was 2 weeks ago, we would know a certain contentious presidents' account to bot tests... but as of now, why follow anyone who is not well behaved?
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