Analysis of automated accounts and their influence on the opinion of twitter users in Ecuador

Abstract:

The social media growth and their popularity throughout the world have been reasons to be used in order to influence users with viral content, false news or political interest messages using automated accounts. Like the rest of the countries, in the social networks, the Ecuadorian users are the people that attend the presence of automated accounts that look for the trend in the topics of social interest. In the topics of social interest. The objective of this work is to analyze the influence of automated accounts in the opinion of topics of interest to Twitter users in Ecuador, using machine learning algorithms, which will allow us to know the participation rate of social bots in topics of tendency. This way we can prevent the increase of potentially harmful effects that are caused by the viralization of news.

Año de publicación:

2019

Keywords:

• Data Mining
• Social bot
• Automated accounts
• Machine learning

Fuente:

scopus