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I wonder how many were just bots during the election. My experience from running Facebook ads is that Facebook is crawling with bots. We might never know the
by nkkollaw 8y ago
I wonder how many were just bots during the election.
My experience from running Facebook ads is that Facebook is crawling with bots.
We might never know the actual numbers.
- adventured 8y agoFacebook recently said they deleted 583 million fake accounts in just the first quarter of 2018. It's entirely plausible a lot of that supposed usage drop, is more aggressive bot elimination. https://www.cnet.com/news/facebook-deleted-583-million-fake-accounts-in-the-first-three-months-of-2018/ https://www.cnet.com/news/facebook-deleted-583-million-fake-...
- nkkollaw 8y agoYup, good point. We also have no idea how many more there are, certainly FB wasn't warning anyone that their numbers might have been incorrect because of bots any time before getting rid of them..?
- adventured 8y agoFrom what I understand of the bot deletion in question, these were newer accounts and are not counted in the official monthly active user figures (the 2.2 billion number). That is, Facebook's monthly active count isn't going to suddenly show 1.7 billion now instead.