Twitter Bot Detection

Academic studies estimate that up to 15% of Twitter users are automated bot accounts [1]. The prevalence of Twitter bots coupled with the ability of some bots to give seemingly human responses has enabled these non-human accounts to garner widespread influence. Hence, detecting non-human Twitter users or automated bot accounts using machine learning techniques has become an area of interest to researchers in the last few years. [1] https://aaai.org/ocs/index.php/ICWSM/ICWSM17/paper/view/15587