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20162020
most citedAn in-depth characterisation of Bots and Humans on Twitter

23 citations · 25 across the 3 of their papers we have counts for

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5 papers

cs.SI2020

Characterising and Detecting Sponsored Influencer Posts on Instagram

Koosha Zarei, Damilola Ibosiola, Reza Farahbakhsh +4

Recent years have seen a new form of advertisement campaigns emerge: those involving so-called social media influencers. These influencers accept money in return for promoting prod…

cs.CY2020★ 2 cited

Dissecting the Workload of a Major Adult Video Portal

Andreas Grammenos, Aravindh Raman, Timm Böttger +2

Adult content constitutes a major source of Internet traffic. As with many other platforms, these sites are incentivized to engage users and maintain them on the site. This engagem…

cs.SI2018

Exploring Media Bias and Toxicity in South Asian Political Discourse

Adnan Qayyum, Zafar Gilani, Siddique Latif +1

Media outlets and political campaigners recognise social media as a means for widely disseminating news and opinions. In particular, Twitter is used by political groups all over th…

cs.SI2017★ 23 cited

An in-depth characterisation of Bots and Humans on Twitter

Zafar Gilani, Reza Farahbakhsh, Gareth Tyson +2

Recent research has shown a substantial active presence of bots in online social networks (OSNs). In this paper we utilise our past work on studying bots (Stweeler) to comparativel…

cs.NI2016

Peer provided cell-like networks built out of thin air

Andres Arcia-Moret, Zafar Gilani, Arjuna Sathiaseelan +1

The success of Wi-Fi technology as an efficient and low-cost last-mile access solution has enabled massive spontaneous deployments generating storms of beacons all across the globe…