Category: Bot Research

Beyond exposing bots, patterns also help to identify fake Twitter account distributors responsible for spreading fake account networks across Twitter.

The Twitter Bot Mother Lode is a super botnet comprised of a variety of bots that span the globe and are systematically created daily.

Unfettered by Twitter’s rules, Trump’s tweets and retweets of suspect accounts have allowed him to amplify his personal and political attacks for years.

Which bot checkers are better? Are they worth using at all? We reviewed several bot checkers commonly used by Twitter users–by testing them.

After Twitter released thousands of IRA-linked accounts, we found a botnet nested within the data dump. A botnet with at least 1,000 still-active accounts.

We previously reported on a Twitter account housing over 60,000 Russian-English bots. Since Twitter hasn’t suspended the account, we’ve tracked its network.

It’s well documented that Trump’s Twitter account is rife with fake followers.Those fake followers swell Trump’s account and inflate his interactions.

A step-by-step walk-through of how to spot a bot–tools to analyze a twitter account.

On September 29, 2019, Trump tweeted about Civil War. We took a look at how the bots in Trump’s account added significantly to the problem.

Twitter’s algorithms help to push bots into real accounts by way of Twitter’s own “Who to Follow” lists. These lists recognize and suggest connected bots.

The Elsa Darner Twitter troll-bots were posted and mass reported in June 2018. Not only were they not suspended, there are more of them now.

Twitter ignored 20 million Russian bots. Will they ignore 40 million?

In a six-month project, we found millions of Russian bots on Twitter—and this is just the start.

A Twitter botnet pushed messaging in support of Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court—making it appear as if he had more support than he did.

How an army of Twitter bots participated in opposition rhetoric toward Al Franken.

The Jane Austen Twitter Bots is a group of Twitter bots that regularly tweet phrases from Jane Austen literature. But these accounts are far from harmless.

We discovered hundreds of related and similarly automated Twitter accounts with tentacles deep into Twitter’s users. One so massive that we gave it a name. The Reffy Botnet.

With easy entry on multiple platforms and the ability to create many fake accounts, scammers are given ample feeding ground.

This new Twitter botnet is different from those that have previously been identified. It’s currently tweeting anti-Trump propaganda.

I keep hearing that everyone vets their followers. But, if everyone was truly vetting, then how is there a MAGA troll running FBR for the Resistance on Twitter?