{"id":57225,"date":"2017-01-30T01:06:51","date_gmt":"2017-01-30T01:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/bbc_massive_networks_of_fake_accounts_found_on_twitter\/"},"modified":"2017-01-30T01:06:51","modified_gmt":"2017-01-30T01:06:51","slug":"bbc_massive_networks_of_fake_accounts_found_on_twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=57225","title":{"rendered":"(BBC) Massive networks of fake accounts found on Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Massive collections of fake accounts are lying dormant on Twitter, suggests research.<br \/>\nThe largest network ties together more than 350,000 accounts and further work suggests others may be even bigger.<br \/>\nUK researchers accidentally uncovered the lurking networks while probing Twitter to see how people use it.<br \/>\nSome of the accounts have been used to fake follower numbers, send spam and boost interest in trending topics.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/technology-38724082\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Massive collections of fake accounts are lying dormant on Twitter, suggests research. The largest network ties together more than 350,000 accounts and further work suggests others may be even bigger. UK researchers accidentally uncovered the lurking networks while probing Twitter<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=57225\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,433,94,582,589,149,168,95,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-social-networking","category-blogging-the-internet","category-consumerconsumer-spending","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-economy","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-science-technology","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}