The most-active Twitter bots produce a large share of the links to popular news and current events websites Share of tweeted links to popular news and currentevents websites posted
18“Bots” on Twitter may be behind more link sharing than human beings. An estimated two-thirds of tweeted links to popular news and media websites (66%) are posted by automated accounts, while around a third (34%) are posted by human accounts, based on a sample of tweets from 2017. A relatively small number of highly active bots appear to be responsible for many of those links.
The most-active Twitter bots produce a large share of  | the links to popular news and current events websites  | Share of tweeted links to popular news and currentevents websites posted  | by  | Suspected bots  | Human accounts  | 66%  | 34%  | 28  | 22  | 44  | 500 most-active accounts  | 500 most-active accounts  | Source: Analysis of379 .841 tweeted links to 925 popular news and currentevents  | websites collected over the time period July27-Sept. 11 2017.  | "Bots in the Twittersphere  | PEW RESEARCH CENTER 