论文标题
我们是否应该同意不同意Twitter的机器人问题？
Should we agree to disagree about Twitter's bot problem?
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论文摘要
仅将自动化控制的帐户定义的机器人可以用作在线操纵的武器，并对平台的健康构成威胁。研究人员研究了在线平台，以检测，估计和表征机器人帐户。埃隆·马斯克（Elon Musk）竞标获得Twitter之后，人们对机器人的普遍性提高了。 Twitter最近估计，有5％的可货币化的日常活跃用户是机器人帐户，这引起了有关其方法论的问题。该估算基于特定数量的活跃用户，并依赖于Bot帐户的Twitter标准。在这项工作中，我们要强调需要回答至关重要的问题，以进行适当的估计并比较不同的方法。我们争辩说，对机器人行为，检测方法以及所检查的人群的假设如何影响Twitter上机器人百分比的估计。最后，我们强调平台在处理可能影响其用户的威胁时保持警惕，透明和公正。
Bots, simply defined as accounts controlled by automation, can be used as a weapon for online manipulation and pose a threat to the health of platforms. Researchers have studied online platforms to detect, estimate, and characterize bot accounts. Concerns about the prevalence of bots were raised following Elon Musk's bid to acquire Twitter. Twitter's recent estimate that 5\% of monetizable daily active users being bot accounts raised questions about their methodology. This estimate is based on a specific number of active users and relies on Twitter's criteria for bot accounts. In this work, we want to stress that crucial questions need to be answered in order to make a proper estimation and compare different methodologies. We argue how assumptions on bot-likely behavior, the detection approach, and the population inspected can affect the estimation of the percentage of bots on Twitter. Finally, we emphasize the responsibility of platforms to be vigilant, transparent, and unbiased in dealing with threats that may affect their users.
