Is That A Bot In Your Twitter Feed, Or Are You Just Glad To See Porn?

Two-thirds of all traffic to websites linked from a tweet emanates from a bot, according to findings of an exhaustive computational analysis released this morning by the Pew Research Center.

The study, which analyzed more than 1.2 million tweets linking to 2,215 popular websites between July 27 and Sept. 11, …


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