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Facebook reported 1.23 billion daily active users as of last December [0]. 5.6 million bots is only 0.46% of the "user" base, so in terms of raw number of users
by dave5104 10y ago
Facebook reported 1.23 billion daily active users as of last December [0]. 5.6 million bots is only 0.46% of the "user" base, so in terms of raw number of users it doesn't really seem all that bad.
I would be curious, however, how much engagement that 0.46% accounted for. Didn't seem like much since the article mentions USA Today not seeing much of a dip in engagements.
[0] https://newsroom.fb.com/company-info/ https://newsroom.fb.com/company-info/
- SomeStupidPoint 10y agoThis was only one purge tipped off by USA Today. I would guess that Facebook has 10-20x that number of bots total, since this appeared to be a single network that hadn't become "active" (as per the story). A quick Google puts Twitter at 9-15% bots, which makes the estimates roughly line up with what I'd expect: Twitter is slightly worse (2-3x bot concentration) but the two aren't incomparably different.