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A bots examination of the hashtag #TrudeauMustGo in 2019 on Twitter

September 18, 2019

As a follow up to my Conversation on bots before the 2019 Canadian election, I collected 310,451 tweeted referencing #TrudeauMustGo posted by 13,960 unique users from 20 June until 13 September 2019. The highest number of tweets were on 19 July (n=21,157) followed by 14 August 2019 (n=11,799). The top day is mostly attributed to a 鈥溾�� post by a conservative supporter posted on 18 July challenging the claim that this hashtag is caused by bots, while the latter date coincided with鈥痭ews reports鈥痮n Trudeau鈥檚 breaching the conflict of interest law in relation to the SNC-Lavalin.

Figure 1 鈥� Frequency of tweets referencing #TrudeauMustGo

Table 1 鈥� The top retweets which include 5 posts referencing bots

No. Retweets Frequency
1.  #TrudeauMustGo 22,626
2. #trudeaumustgo #notabot 1,079
3. #TrudeauMustGo鈥� #cdnpoli 474
4. #notabot #trudeaumustgo 460
5. #trudeaumustresign #TrudeauMustGo 390
6. #TrudeauMustGo #TrudeauMustResign 379
7. #TrudeauMustGo #ButtsMustGo 371
8. #TrudeauMustGo #LiberalsMustGo 319
9. #TrudeauMustGo #TrudeauMustGo 249
10. #TrudeauMustGo #Scheer4PM  230
11. #TrudeauMustGo #VotePPC #PPC #PPC2019 #BERNIERNATION #MCGA #Liberals #TheGreatAwakening #Peoplespartyofcanada 216
12. #tRUDEauMustGO! 120
13.  #trudeaumustresign #trudeaumustgo #LiberalsMustGo #ButtsMustGo #ProsecuteTrudeau #ObstructionOfJustice 109
14. #TrudeauMustGo #TrudeauMustGo #TrudeauMustGo  107
15. #TrudeauMustGo #TrudeauMustGoToJail 100
16. #TrudeauMustGo #McKennaMustGo 95
17.  #TrudeauMustGo #TrudeauMustGo #notAbot 92
18. #TrudeauMustGo #NotABot #PrisonersLikeButts #FlushTheTurd  91
19. #buttsmustgo #trudeaumustgo 78

The bots examination of all the users (n=13,960), which lasted 5 days to complete, shows the results in the figure below. First, it was not possible to get the scores of 61 accounts either because they were private, blocked, or deleted. From the remaining 13,899 accounts, there were only 520 accounts that scored 3.5 and above which increases their likelihood of being bots, constituting about 3.5% of the total accounts (Botometer calculates scores ranging between 0 for humans and 5 for bots). To conclude, the vast majority of Twitter users who referenced #TrudeauMustGo are humans and only a very few number of users seem to act like bots.鈥� 鈥�

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