2 papers
cs.SI2025
Characterising Behavioural Families and Dynamics of Promotional Twitter Bots via Sequence-Based Modelling
Ohoud Alzahrani, Russell Beale, Robert J. Hendley
This paper asks whether promotional Twitter/X bots form behavioural families and whether members evolve similarly. We analyse 2,798,672 tweets from 2,615 ground-truth promotional b…
cs.HC2025
Bots Don't Sit Still: A Longitudinal Study of Bot Behaviour Change, Temporal Drift, and Feature-Structure Evolution
Ohoud Alzahrani, Russell Beale, Bob Hendley
Social bots are now deeply embedded in online platforms for promotion, persuasion, and manipulation. Most bot-detection systems still treat behavioural features as static, implicit…