{"id":11051,"date":"2017-03-11T13:58:15","date_gmt":"2017-03-11T21:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pocketwisdominsights.com\/pwicolab\/?p=11051"},"modified":"2019-02-18T20:59:06","modified_gmt":"2019-02-19T04:59:06","slug":"nearly-48-million-twitter-accounts-could-be-bots-says-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pocketwisdominsights.com\/pwicolab\/co-lab\/pwi-co-lab-staff\/nearly-48-million-twitter-accounts-could-be-bots-says-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Nearly 48 Million Twitter Accounts Could Be Bots, Says Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Opening Insights<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Pocket Wisdom Insights (PWI) invites you to explore the following <strong>Co-Lab Blog<\/strong>.<\/em><br \/>\n<em> This blog features parts of\u00a0influential and insightful article written outside of the <strong>PWI\u00a0Co-Lab<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em> written outside of the <strong>PWI\u00a0Co-Lab<\/strong> by Michael Newberg, on Friday, 10 Mar 2017, \u00a0published by CNBC.com<\/em><br \/>\n<em> We have republished this content in respect of the author\u2019s vision, message and research<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>Informational Insights<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/player.cnbc.com\/p\/gZWlPC\/cnbc_global?playertype=synd&amp;byGuid=3000600359&amp;size=530_298\" width=\"530\" height=\"298\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div class=\"group\">\n<blockquote><p>A big chunk of those \"likes,\" \"retweets,\" and \"followers\" lighting up your <a class=\"inline_quotes\" href=\"\/\/data.cnbc.com\/quotes\/TWTR\" target=\"_self\" data-inline-quote-symbol=\"TWTR\" data-gdsid=\"145284\">Twitter <\/a>account may not be coming from human hands. According to <a class=\"inline_asset\" title=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/pdf\/1703.03107.pdf\" href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/pdf\/1703.03107.pdf\" target=\"_self\">new research from the University of Southern California and Indiana University<\/a>, up to 15 percent of Twitter accounts are in fact bots rather than people.<\/p>\n<p>The research could be troubling news for Twitter, which has struggled to grow its user base in the face of growing competition from Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and others.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at USC used more than one thousand features to identify bot accounts on Twitter, in categories including friends, tweet content and sentiment, and time between tweets. Using that framework, researchers wrote that \"our estimates suggest that between 9% and 15% of active Twitter accounts are bots.\"<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2017\/03\/10\/nearly-48-million-twitter-accounts-could-be-bots-says-study.html\">Nearly 48 million Twitter accounts could be bots, says study<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Possibilities for Consideration<\/h2>\n<h3>Take a moment and examine\u2026<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>As you reviewed the material above, what stood out to you?<\/li>\n<li>What is the potential impact, economically and\/or socially?<\/li>\n<li>What action is needed to stop or support this idea?<\/li>\n<li>You may want to consider whether you:\n<ul>\n<li>want to be <em>aware<\/em> of,<\/li>\n<li>should become <em>supportive<\/em> of,<\/li>\n<li>would want to be <em>active<\/em> in this topic?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Add Your Insight<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply.<br \/>\nBeing willing is not enough; we must do.<br \/>\n<\/em>LEONARDO DA VINCI<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Opening Insights Pocket Wisdom Insights (PWI) invites you to explore the following Co-Lab Blog. This blog features parts of\u00a0influential and insightful article written outside of the PWI\u00a0Co-Lab written outside of the PWI\u00a0Co-Lab by Michael Newberg, <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/pocketwisdominsights.com\/pwicolab\/co-lab\/pwi-co-lab-staff\/nearly-48-million-twitter-accounts-could-be-bots-says-study\/\" title=\"Nearly 48 Million Twitter Accounts Could Be Bots, Says Study\">[...]<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":11062,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[201,12,91,49,89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-emod-blog","category-co-lab","category-finance-co-lab-blogs","category-leadership-co-lab-blogs","category-technology-co-lab-blogs"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/pocketwisdominsights.com\/pwicolab\/wp-content\/uploads\/people\/pexels-photo-59087.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pocketwisdominsights.com\/pwicolab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pocketwisdominsights.com\/pwicolab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pocketwisdominsights.com\/pwicolab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pocketwisdominsights.com\/pwicolab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pocketwisdominsights.com\/pwicolab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11051"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/pocketwisdominsights.com\/pwicolab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23667,"href":"https:\/\/pocketwisdominsights.com\/pwicolab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11051\/revisions\/23667"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pocketwisdominsights.com\/pwicolab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pocketwisdominsights.com\/pwicolab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pocketwisdominsights.com\/pwicolab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pocketwisdominsights.com\/pwicolab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}