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2018. A Network Topology Approach to Bot Classification. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the South African Institute of Computer Scientists and Information Technologists. :79-88.
Automated social agents, or bots are increasingly becoming a problem on social media platforms. There is a growing body of literature and multiple tools to aid in the detection of such agents on online social networking platforms. We propose that the social network topology of a user would be sufficient to determine whether the user is a automated agent or a human. To test this, we use a publicly available dataset containing users on Twitter labelled as either automated social agent or human. Using an unsupervised machine learning approach, we obtain a detection accuracy rate of 70%.