[anon6_]

It was always a metric easy to inflate.

Just like Ashley Madison's male to female and bot to human ratio, we'll never get honest stats on this - but it's really easy to bot twitter. There is no mobile phone verification. The amount of computerized accounts on twitter is huge.

From Twitter's SEC filing [1]:

In a new filing, the company said that “up to approximately 8.5%” of the accounts it considers active are automatically updated “without any discernible additional user-initiated action.”

Even that is quite a qualifier. You could have a discernible user-initiated action, then leave it to a bot.

I won't deny that twitter is a great way to get inbound traffic, and lots of it. But your followers, shares, etc. are still hugely inflated. It's really easy to game Twitter. The signal:noise ratio on there is critical.

[1]: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1418091/000156459014...