3 papers
cs.SI2019
A Socio-Informatic Approach to Automated Account Classification on Social Media
Laurenz A Cornelissen, Petrus Schoonwinkel, Richard J Barnett
Automated accounts on social media have become increasingly problematic. We propose a key feature in combination with existing methods to improve machine learning algorithms for bo…
cs.SI2018
A Network Topology Approach to Bot Classification
Laurenz A Cornelissen, Richard J Barnett, Petrus Schoonwinkel +2
Automated social agents, or bots, are increasingly becoming a problem on social media platforms. There is a growing body of literature and multiple tools to aid in the detection of…
cs.SI2018
Deploying South African Social Honeypots on Twitter
Laurenz A Cornelissen, Richard J Barnett, Morakane AM Kepa +2
Inspired by the simple, yet effective, method of tweeting gibberish to attract automated social agents (bots), we attempt to create localised honeypots in the South African politic…