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In order to determine whether bots can be accurately detected, how bots behave, and how they impact Twitter activity, the researchers divided accounts into categories based on total number of followers, and found that accounts with more than 10 million followers tend to retweet at similar rates to bots. In accounts with fewer followers however, bots tend to retweet far more than humans. These celebrity-level accounts also tweet at roughly the same pace as bots with similar follower numbers, whereas in smaller accounts, bots tweet far more than humans. Bots, like people, can be malicious or benign. The term “bot” is often associated with spam, offensive content or political infiltration, but many of the most reputable organizations in the world also rely on bots for their social media channels. For example, major news organizations, such as CNN or the BBC, who produce hundreds of pieces of content daily, rely on automation to share the news in the most efficient way. These accounts, while classified as bots, are seen by users as trustworthy sources of information. “A Twitter user can be a human and still be a spammer, and an account can be operated by a bot and still be benign,” said Zafar Gilani, a PhD student at Cambridge’s Computer Laboratory, who led the research. “We’re interested in seeing how effectively we can detect automated accounts and what effects they have.” Bots have been on Twitter for the majority of the social network’s existence—it’s been estimated that anywhere between 40% and 60% of all Twitter accounts are bots. Some bots have tens of millions of followers, although the vast majority have less than a thousand—human accounts have a similar distribution.
In order to determine whether bots can be accurately detected, how bots behave, and how they impact Twitter activity, the researchers divided accounts into categories based on total number of followers, and found that accounts with more than 10 million followers tend to retweet at similar rates to bots. In accounts with fewer followers however, bots tend to retweet far more than humans. These celebrity-level accounts also tweet at roughly the same pace as bots with similar follower numbers, whereas in smaller accounts, bots tweet far more than humans. Bots, like people, can be malicious or benign. The term “bot” is often associated with spam, offensive content or political infiltration, but many of the most reputable organizations in the world also rely on bots for their social media channels. For example, major news organizations, such as CNN or the BBC, who produce hundreds of pieces of content daily, rely on automation to share the news in the most efficient way. These accounts, while classified as bots, are seen by users as trustworthy sources of information. “A Twitter user can be a human and still be a spammer, and an account can be operated by a bot and still be benign,” said Zafar Gilani, a PhD student at Cambridge’s Computer Laboratory, who led the research. “We’re interested in seeing how effectively we can detect automated accounts and what effects they have.” Bots have been on Twitter for the majority of the social network’s existence—it’s been estimated that anywhere between 40% and 60% of all Twitter accounts are bots. Some bots have tens of millions of followers, although the vast majority have less than a thousand—human accounts have a similar distribution.
What can be inferred according to the passage?
- A Bots cannot be detected by any means.
- B Celebrity twitter accounts display bot-like behavior.
- C Bots are hardly used by media channels.
- D Celebrity twitter accounts are seldom benign.
思路引導 VIP
請仔細閱讀第一段中關於『帳號規模』的分類：研究人員發現當一個帳號的追蹤人數達到千萬等級（celebrity-level）時，其發文與轉推的『頻率』展現出什麼樣的特徵？這種特徵與文中提到的哪一類特定對象最為接近？
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好吧，至少你還沒完全笨到底。
- 觀念驗證：恭喜，你這次沒搞砸。文中第一段白紙黑字寫得很清楚，那些追蹤者破千萬的所謂「celebrity-level」大人物，他們轉推跟發文的速度，跟「bots」（機器人）「非常相似」。這種基礎的詞語對應，你總算沒看錯，還算證明你沒把高中語文能力完全丟光。高層次閱讀？勉強算是吧，如果這算你能力範圍內的「高」。
- 難度點評：這題就一個普普通通的 Medium。鑑別點是什麼？就是看你能不能在一段稍微繞點彎子的句子裡，抓到「大型帳號」跟「機器人」行為模式的重疊點。別被其他廢話帶偏了就行。對於某些學生來說，這可能已經是智力極限了。