Researchers have collected Twitter data to study a wide range of topics. This growing body
of literature, however, has not yet been reviewed systematically to synthesize Twitter-related …

The creation, dissemination, and consumption of disinformation and fabricated content on
social media is a growing concern, especially with the ease of access to such sources, and …

The widespread dissemination of misinformation in social media has recently received a lot
of attention in academia. While the problem of misinformation in social media has been …

Recent studies in social media spam and automation provide anecdotal argumentation of
the rise of a new generation of spambots, so-called social spambots. Here, for the first time …

Fake followers are those Twitter accounts specifically created to inflate the number of
followers of a target account. Fake followers are dangerous for the social platform and …

Within OSNs, many of our supposedly online friends may instead be fake accounts called
social bots, part of large groups that purposely re-share targeted content. Here, we study …

The presence of bots has been felt in many aspects of social media. Twitter, one example of
social media, has especially felt the impact, with bots accounting for a large portion of its …

Social media data is widely analyzed in computational social science. Twitter, one of the
largest social media platforms, is used for research, journalism, business, and government …

Over the last few years, online social networks (OSNs), such as Facebook, Twitter and
Tuenti, have experienced exponential growth in both profile registrations and social …

Microblogs are increasingly exploited for predicting prices and traded volumes of stocks in
financial markets. However, it has been demonstrated that much of the content shared in …