Twitter social bots: The 2019 Spanish general election data.

ABSTRACT: The term social bots refer to software-controlled accounts that actively participate in the social platforms to influence public opinion toward desired directions. To this extent, this data descriptor presents a Twitter dataset collected from October 4th to November 11th, 2019, within the context of the Spanish general election. Starting from 46 hashtags, the collection contains almost eight hundred thousand users involved in political discussions, with a total of 5.8 million tweets. The proposed data descriptor is related to the research article available at [1]. Its main objectives are: i) to enable worldwide researchers to improve the data gathering, organization, and preprocessing phases; ii) to test machine-learning-powered proposals; and, finally, iii) to improve state-of-the-art sol

SUBMITTER: Pastor-Galindo J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7394856 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature