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HOW DO TWITTER'S BIGGEST ACCOUNTS ACT LIKE BOTS?

Researchers have previously discovered bots retweet and post links to external sites more often than non-bot accounts.

They also see less engagement on their tweets. 

Bots tweet more often, yet they spend less time 'liking' others' tweets.

They revealed the behavior of users with 10 million followers or more was more in line with bots than humans.

These accounts tweet at roughly the same pace as bots with similar follower numbers and, like bots, tweet more in general.

They rely on retweeting and posting links to external sites more than human accounts. 

Their tweets are also of lower quality and see less engagement. 

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