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by fokov 3427 days ago
Does anyone know if any of the social media sites have release info on their relative bot counts?

I'm curious because I've seen the same posts in different places and now see a ton of comments boiling down to "Source?" again. The later used to be everywhere 8-9 years ago, but were typically people that actually wanted a source to read not just spam the question. Now it seems they are spamming it to distract from the real conversations.

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No, because they report on growth of active users, which include bots. Their stock price would be reduced if they disclosed bot account numbers.
They also profit on bots through their ad networks.