Battling Bad Bots: UNM researchers work to keep Twitter real

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – We all know you can’t trust everything you see online, but researchers at the University of New Mexico are trying to do their small part to change that, at least when it comes to Twitter.
They are using technology to detect Twitter “bots.”
“They are mimicking human beings to have sleep time, rest time, lunch time and so on. So this was a fascinating discovery,” said Abdullah Mueen, an assistant professor in UNM’s Department of