Twitter Reports 23 Million Users Are Actually Bots 84
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.
Twitter Bots are GREAT (Score:5, Insightful)
Twitter Bots are GREAT! Seriously, Twitter is the new RSS. This is honestly how I find out about the latest Slashdot articles, because their account is bot based to feed content from this site to their Twitter account. A huge chunk of the accounts I follow on Twitter are in this same category, just news services. Twitter has become the modern day RSS feeder, and I personally love it for this purpose.
Re:Slashdot Bot (Score:4, Insightful)
I feel bad for those goats [chzbgr.com].
Re:Twitter Bots are GREAT (Score:5, Insightful)
We replace a perfectly-good open standard with proprietary, centralized shit and you call it progress?!