Massive networks of fake accounts found on Twitter

Found on BBC News on Tuesday, 24 January 2017
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The largest network ties together more than 350,000 accounts and further work suggests others may be even bigger.

The pair's most recent work had uncovered a bigger network of bots that seemed to include more than 500,000 accounts.

It is actually more suprising that the networks are not bigger. Everybody sells spam followers on Twitter these days for cheap.