問題詳情
請依下文回答第 36 題至第 40 題： In order to determine whether bots can be accurately detected, how bots behave, and how theyimpact Twitter activity, the researchers divided accounts into categories based on total number offollowers, and found that accounts with more than 10 million followers tend to retweet at similar rates tobots. In accounts with fewer followers however, bots tend to retweet far more than humans. Thesecelebrity-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 alsorely on bots for their social media channels. For example, major news organizations, such as CNN or theBBC, who produce hundreds of pieces of content daily, rely on automation to share the news in the mostefficient way. These accounts, while classified as bots, are seen by users as trustworthy sources ofinformation.
“A Twitter user can be a human and still be a spammer, and an account can be operated by a bot andstill be benign,” said Zafar Gilani, a PhD student at Cambridge’s Computer Laboratory, who led theresearch. “We’re interested in seeing how effectively we can detect automated accounts and what effectsthey have.” Bots have been on Twitter for the majority of the social network’s existence—it’s been estimatedthat anywhere between 40% and 60% of all Twitter accounts are bots. Some bots have tens of millionsof followers, although the vast majority have less than a thousand—human accounts have a similardistribution.
【題組】36 Which of the following statements is true?
(A) Twitter-followers are often described as spammers.
(B) Celebrities tweet as often as bots when they have a similar number of followers.
(C) The more followers a twitter account has, the less likely it will be tweeted by humans.
(D) Twitters anywhere can only be bots with more than 10 million followers.
參考答案
答案：B
難度：適中0.666667
統計：A(0),B(2),C(1),D(0),E(0)