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Twitter Reports 23 Million Users Are Actually Bots
An anonymous reader writes: In its most recent quarterly report to the Securities and Exchange Commission, Twitter disclosed that approximately 8.5% of its users are actually bots. Some of these 23 million bots were created to make revenue-generating URLs, others were created to collect followers that would later be sold to whoever needs a ready audience, and a few were created to mimic stereotypes just for fun. Now that Twitter is a public company, some wonder if these bots help or hinder Twitter's stock value.
some wonder if these bots help or hinder Twitter's stock value.
Hmm. Are some of those that are wondering if it helps Twitter's stock actually bots themselves?
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You should write a bot that posts on slasdot for you. You know, cut out the middle man and all that :)
Bots are probably here to stay, as long as they are finding good and useful stuff for us they are harmless and can sometimes be useful. It's the evil and misleading ones that are ranging from annoying to dangerous. "Look at this red rose, it's as red as your blood that you will see unless you pay us $25."
From another perspective bots are probably going to lead the way into artificial intelligence. Sooner or later we will see bots doing more stuff than just writing on twitter or posting Wikipedia articles.
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