Twitter Reports 23 Million Users Are Actually Bots

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday August 12, 2014 @09:15PM from the probably-underreporting-by-a-lot dept.

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.

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Why would this be good for Twitter's stock?! by Anonymous Coward · 2014-08-12 21:20 · Score: 5, Funny

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?