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I just find it a little hilarious that Twitter is even attempting to counter the bots claim. You have to spend 5 minutes reading the replies to tweets by promi

• ALittleLight 4y ago
  Yeah, but that just shows there are a lot of bots. There are a lot of twitter users too. 5% of a lot (of Twitter users) as bots equals a lot of bots. So, that's consistent. What about all the tweets that aren't famous politicians? What about the orders of magnitude more people who just read, and maybe like, tweets? I don't think "I see a lot of bots" is an argument that the 5% number is wrong.
• arlcode 4y ago
  None of my tweets ever got a bot reply. Now that is most likely because they are all about very local topics or things related to my specific field of work. They are also not very popular (a handful of retweets) and mostly cater to people I know in real life. I know at least 10 people who regularly use Twitter through the app (aka being shown ads) but never ever tweeted a single thing. They would be counted as real users by Twitter but 1000 bots who never viewed an ad wouldn't. That is all that Twitter claims in their SEC fillings. That there are roughly 200 million active daily users who are being shown ads and that of those 200 million (very roughly) 5% are bots but "who knows it's a guess", says Twitter. If there were an additional 50 Billion bots who never saw an ad, Twitters statement would still be true.