Bot stamina: examining the influence and staying power of bots in online social networks

Ross Schuchard1, Andrew Crooks1, Anthony Stefanidis2, Arie Croitoru3
1Computational Social Science Program, Department of Computational and Data Sciences, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, 22030, USA
2Department of Geography and Geoinformation Science, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, 22030, USA
3Criminal Investigations and Network Analysis Center, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, 22030, USA

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