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Five percent isn’t a needle in a haystack. If you gave me 20 tweets from 20 accounts, would I be able to spot the one that’s a bot? Maybe? If you gave me 100
by gorgoiler 4y ago
Five percent isn’t a needle in a haystack. If you gave me 20 tweets from 20 accounts, would I be able to spot the one that’s a bot? Maybe?
If you gave me 100, could I spot the 5 that are bots? If you gave a team of paralegals a pile of 10k random accounts that are actively writing content, could they find the 500 that are supposedly bots?
Perhaps I’ve answered my own question: the bot accounts that get people hot under the collar are the ones that simply like and retweet, without ever posting any unique content?
- WoahNoun 4y agoMost twitter users don't tweet so using tweets to identify % of bots isn't helpful.