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What if it’s 50%?
What if it’s 90%?
Exactly, I want to know how trash twitter really is. We are at a moment where 1-4 users is a bot is the optimistic number
I can imagine Twitter as just full of hateful women preaching their bullshit to bots.
90/10 would be rather appropriate. They can be the 10% this time.
I did chuckle at your 90/10 reference
Well the number of people selling Bots to boost your numbers years ago I can only believe has gotten worse.
Across the board the overall bot numbers are probably over 20% easily, and while 20% might not seem massive, those 20% are probably used in a focused manner for maximum impact.
For example, for politically charged topics like abortion, it wouldn't surprise me if the bot influence is over 90% simply because that's where the largest portion of the 20% are focused. Topics that are important to the Left and to their establishment allies probably get special attention, e.g. the Rings of Power release, Ukraine-related news stories or the latest "exploitable" mass shooting.
20% can have a massively oversized impact if used effectively.
The thing is bots can tweet as much as they want. I mean we know they do vote manipulation, but most of the eyes are on a small percentage of the content that's probably created by real people. A site like that can be 90% bots and it only partially impairs its use.