Using sentiment to detect bots on Twitter: Are humans more opinionated than bots?

John P. Dickerson, Vadim Kagan, V. S. Subrahmanian

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Abstract

In many Twitter applications, developers collect only a limited sample of tweets and a local portion of the Twitter network. Given such Twitter applications with limited data, how can we classify Twitter users as either bots or humans? We develop a collection of network-, linguistic-, and application-oriented variables that could be used as possible features, and identify specific features that distinguish well between humans and bots. In particular, by analyzing a large dataset relating to the 2014 Indian election, we show that a number of sentimentrelated factors are key to the identification of bots, significantly increasing the Area under the ROC Curve (AUROC). The same method may be used for other applications as well.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationASONAM 2014 - Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining
EditorsXindong Wu, Xindong Wu, Martin Ester, Guandong Xu
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages620-627
Number of pages8
ISBN (Electronic)9781479958771
DOIs
StatePublished - Oct 10 2014
Externally publishedYes
Event2014 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, ASONAM 2014 - Beijing, China
Duration: Aug 17 2014Aug 20 2014

Publication series

NameASONAM 2014 - Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining

Other

Other2014 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, ASONAM 2014
Country/TerritoryChina
CityBeijing
Period8/17/148/20/14

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Computer Science Applications

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