A new study from The University of Southern California and Indiana University finds that up to 15% of active Twitter accounts are bots with built-in retweet and mention strategies that target specific groups. With 319 million monthly active users, that equates to roughly 48 million active bot accounts on Twitter, more than the population of California. This study is from March 2017. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/48-million-twitter-accounts-bots-university-of-southern-california-study/
Study reveals whopping 48M Twitter accounts are actually bots - CBS News
Researchers say up to 15 percent of accounts on Twitter are "autonomous entities known as social bots"
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/48-million-twitter-accounts-bots-university-of-southern-california-study/Proud to call myself awake & a Patriot. Planting seeds when I can. Joined AU after the Twitter Purge of '21. Glad I did.
Works for me.
Humm!
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Kinda makes sense in all this craziness