Social network motifs are recurring patterns of small subgraphs that indicate fundamental patterns of social communication. In this work, we study the simple star network motifs that recur on X during the COVID-19 discourse. We study the profile of the manifestation of the star network among bot and human users. There are six primary patterns of the star motif, differentiating by the bots and humans being either egos and alters. We describe the presentation of each of these six patterns in our data, demonstrating how the motif patterns can inform social media behavioral analysis.

翻译：社交网络模体是小型子图中反复出现的模式，揭示了社会传播的基本结构。本研究探讨了COVID-19相关讨论期间在X平台上反复出现的简单星型网络模体。我们分析了机器用户与人类用户中星型网络的表现特征。根据机器用户与人类用户分别作为中心节点或边缘节点的角色差异，星型模体主要呈现六种基本模式。我们通过数据展示了这六种模式的具体表现，论证了此类模体模式如何为社交媒体行为分析提供信息依据。