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August 12, 2014

Up to 23 million active Twitter accounts are bots

by John_A

Twitter’s said its active user base is growing, but not every account that’s active is necessary a flesh-and-blood human. Alongside those verified accounts of the stars, there’s all kinds of bots that use the service to deliver completely stupid nonsense, sudden (urgent!) sale news and even earthquake reports — well, some have their uses. Twitter’s now updated its filing, noting that bot accounts total up to 8.5 percent of its active user count at the end of June. That’s roughly 23 million tweeters that aren’t human – and probably aren’t going to be clicking on that ad for Innovative Cloud Storage Solutions any time soon.

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