Research Article

Information Diffusion Model of Social Bots: An Analysis of the Spread of Coverage of China Issues by The New York Times on Twitter

Table 2

Statistics of human and bot users' tweeting metrics in first-level communication.

ā€‰QuantityTweetPraisedReceive a transferAwarded

Robotics11612.381.320.900.12
Secondary dissemination39981.4010.764.931.05