Table 2 Twitter corpus overview at the weekly and cumulative perspective for each OSN conversation in this study

United States Election Bot Source (% of total)

Week 1

4,054,560

2,280,176

1,029,090

(Feb. 1–7, 2016)

315,540 (7.78%)

235,815 (10.34%)

4,229 (0.41%)

Week 2

4,991,968

2,802,381

997,107

(Feb. 8–14, 2016)

423,976 (8.49%)

326,808 (11.66%)

4,260 (0.43%)

Week 3

5,704,997

3,284,436

1,215,948

(Feb. 15–21, 2016)

474,652 (8.32%)

373,496 (11.37%)

4,314 (0.35%)

Week 4

8,580,214

5,071,862

1,661,688

(Feb. 22–28, 2016)

573,950 (6.69%)

442,897 (8.73%)

4,720 (0.28%)

Cumulative

23,331,739

13,438,855

3,313,230

1,788,118 (7.66%)

1,379,016 (10.26%)

6,776 (0.20%)

Ukraine Conflict Bot Source (% of total)

Week 1

306,544

155,151

75,653

(Aug. 1–7, 2016)

12,605 (4.11%)

8,059 (5.19%)

1,445 (1.91%)

Week 2

305,796

141,193

107,281

(Aug. 8–14, 2016)

13,764 (4.50%)

8,272 (5.86%)

1,200 (1.12%)

Week 3

381,146

210,047

143,684

(Aug. 15–21, 2016)

17,012 (4.46%)

11,212 (5.34%)

1,647 (1.15%)

Week 4

280,761

133,985

122,845

(Aug. 22–28, 2016)

8,772 (3.12%)

5,247 (3.92%)

1,126 (0.92%)

Cumulative

1,274,247

640,376

364,422

52,153 (4.09%)

32,790 (5.12%)

2,436 (0.67%)

Turkey Censorship Bot Source (% of total)

Week 1

709,530

442,429

305,239

(Dec. 1–7, 2016)

18,243 (2.57%)

11,976 (2.71%)

1,892 (0.62%)

Week 2

894,900

591,209

410,035

(Dec. 8–14, 2016)

27,349 (3.06%)

18,189 (3.08%)

2,705 (0.66%)

Week 3

1,486,289

1,036,436

635,535

(Dec. 15–21, 2016)

44,833 (3.02%)

29,696 (2.87%)

3,807 (0.60%)

Week 4

917,937

571,393

425,435

(Dec. 22–28, 2016)

25,575 (2.79%)

17,379 (3.04%)

2,702 (0.64%)

Cumulative

4,008,656

2,641,467

1,322,010

116,000 (2.89%)

77,240 (2.92%)

5,174 (0.39%)