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标题：You followed my bot! Transforming robots into influential users in Twitter
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作者：Johnnatan Messias ; Lucas Schmidt ; Ricardo Oliveira 等
期刊名称：First Monday
电子版ISSN：1396-0466
出版年度：2013
卷号：18
期号：7
DOI：10.5210/fm.v18i7.4217
语种：English
出版社：University of Illinois at Chicago Library
摘要：Systems that classify influential users in social networks have been used frequently and are referenced in scientific papers and in the media as an ideal standard of evaluation of influence in the Twitter social network. We consider such systems of evaluation to be complex and subjective, and we therefore suspect that they are vulnerable and easy to manipulate. Based on this, we performed experiments and analysis of two systems for ranking influence: Klout and Twitalyzer. We created simple robots capable of interacting by means of Twitter accounts, and we measured how influent they were. Our results show that it is possible to become influential through simple strategies. This suggests that the systems do not have ideal means to measure and classify influence.
关键词：Twitter;influence;bots;klout