Table 3 Overall conversation tweet contribution volumes by human and likely social bot users within each OSN conversation corpus of interest
From: Bot stamina: examining the influence and staying power of bots in online social networks
Corpus | User Type | Average User Tweet Volume | Median User Tweet Volume | Min/Max User Tweet Volume (# of users) | Average User Retweet Volume | Median User Retweet Volume | Min/Max User Retweet Volume (# of users) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
U.S. Election | Humans | 6.5 | 1.0 | Min: 1 (1,920,647 users) | 5.4 | 1.0 | Min: 1 (1,428,380 users) |
Max: 45,542 (1 user) | Max: 8,016 (1 user) | ||||||
Bots | 263.9 | 13.0 | Min: 1 (1,032 users) | 267.0 | 10.0 | Min: 1 (950 users) | |
Max: 19,905 (1 user) | Max: 19,905 (1 user) | ||||||
Ukraine Conflict | Humans | 3.4 | 1.0 | Min: 1 (231,623 users) | 2.8 | 1.0 | Min: 1 (146,879 users) |
Max: 28,072 (1 user) | Max: 1,265 (1 user) | ||||||
Bots | 21.4 | 4.0 | Min: 1 (569 users) | 16.8 | 3.0 | Min: 1(523 users) | |
Max: 2,623(1 user) | Max: 2,508(1 user) | ||||||
Turkish Censorship | Humans | 2.9 | 1.0 | Min: 1(882,172 users) | 2.7 | 1.0 | Min: 1(647,261 users) |
Max: 10,065 (1 user) | Max: 28,072 (1 user) | ||||||
Bots | 22.4 | 4.0 | Min: 1 (1,416 users) | 17.3 | 4.0 | Min: 1 (1,331 users) | |
Max: 1,936 (1 user) | Max: 4,966 (1 user) |