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How auto is the auto in #autofollow tweets, and how many of the accounts that post them will #autofollow us as a consequence of this thread? Let's find out. #SundayMotivation
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We downloaded all tweets containing #autofollow from the last 10 days, yielding 31783 tweets from 1184 accounts. 815 (68.8%) of these accounts appear automated based on 24/7 activity/use of automation tools. These accounts posted 24735 (77.8%) of the tweets.
The majority of the content posted by the 815 bots with #autofollow tweets is in Japanese, with English in second place. We translated the Japanese text to English via Chrome's translation feature and used these translations for the remainder of the analysis.
