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Re:Twitter Deal Temporarily on Hold by AshamedCaptain on Friday May 13, 2022 @03:12PM (#31371468)
You can estimate yourself from the comfort of your own home how many accounts are spam. Just make a list of 100 random accounts. Truly random, not just "followers of X" or whatever. Then manually look each of them and classify as spam or not. There's your percentage.

If you want more accuracy, hire some people from say Amazon's Mechanical Turk and do 1000. 10k.

Re:Twitter Deal Temporarily on Hold by madrox on Friday May 13, 2022 @03:16PM (#31371517)
I used this exact method a decade ago (thanks statistics 101) to estimate and got 10% with a minuscule margin of error. That was a decade ago though.
Re:Twitter Deal Temporarily on Hold by outworlder on Friday May 13, 2022 @04:45PM (#31372361)
Some data here: https://botsentinel.com/