Bots on Twitter share two-thirds of links to popular websites: Pew
Safi Bello
Techcrunch ------- 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 one aspect of bot-based activity in the Twittersphere. Specifically the researchers wanted to know what proportion of tweeted links to popular websites are posted by automated accounts, rather than by human users? To learn more click on the picture below to read the article.