Twitter: Real or Fake? Group Members: Michael Kinkoph, Josh Sefton, Morgan Soladine Mentor: Hani Dawoud.

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Twitter: Real or Fake? Group Members: Michael Kinkoph, Josh Sefton, Morgan Soladine Mentor: Hani Dawoud

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Question Our goal is to find out whether people following parody accounts know the real counterpart or not. If they know, why do they still follow that parody?

What is a parody account? A parody account is an imitation of the style of a particular writer, artist, or genre with deliberate exaggeration for comic effect. These accounts can be made by any users on Twitter and normally are left public so anyone can follow these accounts

Purpose The main point of our research is to figure out why users create these accounts and how influential the information is on people. We are interested with the phenomenon of parodies and how they gain so much attention from the public and have followers of 200,000 and more.

Importance Since Twitter is a key mean in spreading information/knowledge, it’s vital to know to what extent people do consume false information.

Methodology First Phase: For the first part of our research we created a survey that asked questions about parody accounts, if they knew they were following parody accounts, etc. Our basic idea was to eventually compare survey answers to a much larger data set.

1.Do you follow a parody account on Twitter? yes or no? If yes, why? Parody Account: In this case, a parody account is an account that imitates a celebrity for the purpose of mocking them or their original work. 2. How many Twitter parody accounts do you follow? 3. Did you know that you were following a parody account versus the real account? If yes, how? 4. Do you think that following these parody accounts allows you to learn more about the celebrities? If yes, why? 5. What is your main reason for following a parody account? For our Survey we asked 5 simple questions: Methodology: Survey

Survey Results

What’s it all mean? Majority of people either follow many parody accounts or zero parody accounts at all. Mostly all of those people that do follow a parody account knew it was a parody account. People do not gain information from these parody accounts, but usually just follow them for humor.

Survey Limitations The survey was conducted over a short period of time and did not return much data. Our survey set was mainly college students which gave us a bias result of information. College students are probably more aware of social media sites. They may use social media sites to connect with people rather than use it for news which was out of the scope of our research.

Methodology Second Phase: For the second part of our research we used automatic data mining, which is the process of discovering new patterns from large data sets involving methods of statistics and database systems. Our overall goal of the automatic data mining process is to extract knowledge from a data set in a human-understandable structure.

Process Our mentor Hani helped with the process of crawling through the html using Java. Using twitter’s API it allowed us to quickly crawl through the followers of both the 10 real and 10 parody account’s that we chose.

Twitter Lil Wayne: Real account followers: Parody account followers: Common Beyonce Knowles: Real account followers: Parody account followers: Common Jason Aldean: Real account followers: Parody account followers:39916 Common Drake: Real account followers: Parody account followers: Common Miranda Lambert: Real account followers: Parody account followers:28766 Common Adele: Real account followers: Parody account followers:38801 Common Wiz Khalifa: Real account followers: Parody account followers:88120 Common Rick Ross: Real account followers: Parody account followers:37084 Common Jay-z: Real account followers: Parody account followers: Common Kid Cudi: Real account followers: Parody account followers:38492 Common followers:8278

About the accounts We chose artists because they have a large amount of followers and are very influential. All of the real accounts we chose are verified. (verification process) The parody accounts are not verified but they are public accounts which allowed us to use twitter’s API to find the followers.

Data Mining Results This chart shows the percentage of common followers between an artists real account and parody account. So, for Lil Wayne out of all his parody followers, 49% follow his real account. We used a percentage because of the amount of followers vary from account to account.

Data Mining Results As you can see most of the parody account followers are not aware of the real one.

Limitations With the Twitter API we were only allowed to request for 5000 followers 140 times per hour. This limited us to only finding 700,000 followers per hour, which became time consuming for certain accounts.

Insights Besides finding out that people are unaware they are following real accounts or parody accounts we concluded they may not necessarily consume false information. A lot of times parody accounts aren’t a parody at all and give out other information. For musical artists on twitter judging by how many people follow both their real and parody we can judge how strong their fan base is.

Our own parody account We made our own parody account of a Sports Illustrated Swimsuit model. We obtained a small amount of followers during this semester due to time restraints. Also, we found you can only follow so many people per day which limited the number of followers we could get back. Lastly, it was very difficult to come up with a creative name for any celebrity because so many people have made varying parody account names of celebrities.

The future Twitter is going to continue to shape the way people absorb information. Whether or not people are absorbing true or false information depends on the users knowledge of how to correctly use the website. We decided parody accounts are not necessarily a bad thing. But, if people are not aware the information is false they are receiving this could become a major issue.

Questions?