Analysis of Automated Accounts and their influence on the opinion of Twitter users in Ecuador The social media growth and their popularity throughout the world have been reasons to be used in order to influence users through viral content, false news or messages of political interest with the use of automated accounts. As in the rest of the countries, Ecuador's social media are victims of the presence of automated accounts that seek to generate trends in social interest issues. The objective of this work is to develop a technological tool for data mining for the classification of content and analysis of the influence of automated accounts on Twitter users in Ecuador, which will make it possible to inform the Ecuadorian population about the participation rate of automated accounts. in topics of tendency and to prevent the increase of the potentially harmful effects that are caused by the viralización of the news.