Published December 2, 2022 | Version v1

Fake accounts activity

  • 1. IIT-CNR

Description

This dataset contains the IDs of about 5,458,582 tweets from 23,582 fake accounts for sale on buyaccs.com and active during 2020.

Refer to the paper below for more details.

Mazza, Michele, Guglielmo Cola, and Maurizio Tesconi. "Ready-to-(ab) use: From fake account trafficking to coordinated inauthentic behavior on Twitter." Online Social Networks and Media 31 (2022): 100224.

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* tweets.csv 
    List of tweets produced by monitored fake accounts, each with
      "user.id_str"   id of the user who posted the tweet;
      "id_str"        tweet id.


* users.csv
    List of monitored fake accounts, each with
      "user.id_str"   user account id;
      "cib"           if present, this label identifies a specific coordinated 
                      and inauthentic behavior, as described in the research article;
      "user.meta.account_category"  label indicating the category assigned by the merchant.

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tweets.csv

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