#BotOrNot Engineering Your Social Network to Detect Fraudulent Profiles, by doing an investigation of spam bots on Twitter. We propose an algorithm that will distinguish a spam bot, from a genuine user account by using a JavaScript testing framework that consumes Twitter's REST API. We ran a dataset of 700 Twitter accounts through our algorithm and identified that roughly 11% of the dataset were bot
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