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, tha

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.