THE TWITTERING MACHINE

Miranda Mowbray

2010

Abstract

This paper is a study of the use of Twitter by automated agents, based on data sampled in July-September 2009. It discusses the dramatic rise in rapidly-tweeting automated Twitter accounts beginning in late June 2009; some surprising behaviour by automated Twitter profiles that make direct use of Twitter’s API; and techniques used for automated spamming on Twitter. Ideas are suggested for ways in which Twitter might defend against some common types of automated Twitter spam. The paper ends by outlining some general conclusions for designers of social information systems.

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in Harvard Style

Mowbray M. (2010). THE TWITTERING MACHINE . In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technology - Volume 2: WEBIST, ISBN 978-989-674-025-2, pages 299-304. DOI: 10.5220/0002772402990304


in Bibtex Style

@conference{webist10,
author={Miranda Mowbray},
title={THE TWITTERING MACHINE},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technology - Volume 2: WEBIST,},
year={2010},
pages={299-304},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002772402990304},
isbn={978-989-674-025-2},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technology - Volume 2: WEBIST,
TI - THE TWITTERING MACHINE
SN - 978-989-674-025-2
AU - Mowbray M.
PY - 2010
SP - 299
EP - 304
DO - 10.5220/0002772402990304