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Re:Twitter Is Crawling with Bots and Lacks Incentive to Expe... by boomboomsubban on Friday October 13, 2017 @01:14PM (#15467503)
The open bots have an incentive to make one bot for each usecase, one person trying to make spam bots has an incentive to create as many bots as possible. I have no numbers on the subject, but I would be shocked if it were anywhere close to fifty percent.
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Re:Twitter Is Crawling with Bots and Lacks Incentive to Expe... by deadmetheny on Friday October 13, 2017 @02:07PM (#15467958)
Frankly, I'd expect the percentage to be significantly less than 50%. Determining good from bad bots without a manual check is an interesting problem, though, and it's not cool on Twitter's part if they ban legit bots that people find useful/entertaining on top of the bad actors.
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