Classification of Twitter Accounts into Automated Agents and Human Users

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• Zafar Gilani (Computer Lab)
• Thursday 13 July 2017, 15:00-16:00
• FW26, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

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Online social networks (OSNs) have seen a remark- able rise in the presence of surreptitious automated accounts. Massive human user-base and business-supportive operating model of social networks, such as Twitter, facilitates the creation of automated agents. In this paper we outline a systematic methodology and train a classifier to categorise Twitter accounts into ‘automated’ and ‘human’ users. To improve classification accuracy we employ a set of novel steps. First, we divide the dataset into four popularity bands to compensate for differences in types of accounts. Second, we create a large ground truth dataset using human annotations and extract relevant features from raw tweets. To judge accuracy of the procedure we calculate agreement among human annotators as well as with a bot detection tool. We then apply a Random Forests classifier that achieves an accuracy close to or surpassing human agreement. Finally, as a concluding step we perform tests to measure the efficacy of our results.

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