If you've been on Twitter for too long, or gone on binges where you follow too many people at once, you can end up with a crowded, even toxic Twitter feed. In the twelve years I've spent on Twitter, I've ended up following an unwieldy crowd of over 3,700 accounts. …

Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash's most fervent supporters are at it again and Twitter has become a bitter battlefield. … prominent blockchain developer Jeff Garzik and others, to attribute the suspension to the endless complaints about @Bitcoin that Twitter was likely getting from Bitcoin Core supporters. Twitter … Read More

The new figures come courtesy of a report by the Pew Research Center, which tracked bots on Twitter. And the research firm made a worrying finding. "Automated accounts play a prominent role in tweeting out links to content across the Twitter ecosystem," the Center's report explained. "The Center's … Read More

It's no secret that there are bots on Twitter. But how do bot accounts – which automatically create tweets without direct human oversight – actually affect the mix of content on Twitter? A new Pew Research Center study, conducted over a six-week period in the summer of 2017, examined 1.2 …

The study used the tool Botometer, developed by researchers at Indiana University and the University of Southern California, to determine which Twitter accounts were likely to be bots, looking at a list of about 2,300 popular sites and roughly 1.2 million tweets sharing links to them in a six-week period … …

To help determine whether the Twitter account tweeting out a link was likely a bot or not, Pew relied on Botometer, an automated posting detection tool from researchers at the University of Southern California and the Center for Complex Networks and Systems Research at Indiana University. (Most bots … Read More

And a new study suggests they're behind the majority of links shared on Twitter, too. A Pew Research report released Monday finds that a whole two-thirds of links to popular sites shared on Twitter come from automated accounts. But these aren't just those malicious Russian bots posing as the uncannily … …

It's official: Bots are doing a lot of PR grunt work on Twitter — especially when it comes to promoting porn websites. That perhaps unsurprising conclusion about what automated Twitter accounts are link sharing comes courtesy of a new study by the Pew Research Center which set out to quantify …

Filtering through the enormous amount of content on Twitter can be quite a task, with an average of 6,000 tweets posted on the site per second. However, sometimes a trend will arise that has the potential to make a truly positive impact on avid social media users around the world. …

Labour Senator Aodhán Ó Ríordáin has apologised to Irish international rugby player Paddy Jackson for remarks he posted on social media in the wake of his acquittal on a rape charge. Mr Ó Ríordáin said his tweet posted on 28 March concerning the Belfast rape trial was not designed or …