On June 12, during a presentation at the Third Canadian International Conference on Humanities & Social Sciences 2021, researchers Rodrigo Silva and Andrey Luiz presented to the public an application that will facilitate the understanding of the influence that automated profiles on Twitter have on profiles without automation.
Called BotSeeker, this application analyzes a database obtained from Twitter and accurately answers the exact number of automated profiles that are present in this database.
“The application is free, the operation is simple and intuitive, but nevertheless it requires some knowledge in social network analysis”, reinforces Rodrigo, who currently lives in Sweden and is finishing his doctorate at the University of Lisbon.
Andrey Luiz, who also lives outside Brazil, but in Switzerland, reinforces that interdisciplinarity was the key factor in BotSeeker’s creative process: “Rodrigo’s idea had everything to do with something I really like to do: processing and analysis of data. And as I have a lot of experience with applications of this type, Bot Seeker was the obvious result of our partnership.” The Brazilians also spoke at the presentation that the main objective is to help academic researchers and the media in the fight against fake news.
BotSeeker is available for free at BotSeeker.org
The presentation was like this:
