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In their recent SEC filings, Twitter estimates around 5% of the MAUs are spammers or bots. They also estimate they have 317 million MAUs, which when you work it
by tristanj 10y ago
In their recent SEC filings, Twitter estimates around 5% of the MAUs are spammers or bots. They also estimate they have 317 million MAUs, which when you work it out gives around 16.7 million monthly spammers or bots.
Numbers come from their 2016 Q3 filing
https://investor.twitterinc.com/secfiling.cfm?filingID=1564590-16-26749&CIK=1418091 https://investor.twitterinc.com/secfiling.cfm?filingID=15645...
- astrodust 10y agoI think that's an optimistically low estimate.
- pavanky 10y agoWhy ?
- CharlesW 10y agoIt's not possible to be completely sure that 5% isn't a reality-based estimate, but it's typical for services like Twitter Audit and BotOrNot to identify half or more of a celebrity's followers as bots. For example, as I type this BotOrNot estimates that 34% of @RealDonaldTrump followers, and 48% of @BarackObama followers, are real. Just from being a nobody on Twitter who uses it almost every day, I'd also agree that 5% is laughably optimistic.
- jonknee 10y agoThey are estimating active users, so it's a little hard to compare to follower accounts. A spam account from 4 years ago that followed 1,000 people and stopped would show up in 1,000 different places despite not being an active user.
- pavanky 10y agoWhat makes you think there is no overlap between these bots ?