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But the very existence of their project raises an important question: If two volunteer data science students who are barely out of their teens can figure out how to hang out Twitter’s bad-actor bots, why doesn’t Twitter do the same?

Twitter has every incentive to lie, to minimize, to shove this under the rug. As a fairly recent IPO with virtually flat/negative user growth, and lots of fed up people (like me) abandoning the platform all together, it is desperate to squelch any negative info that Wall Street might use against it.

Unfortunately, there's no favorable outcome for Twitter shareholders in either case. Twitter fesses up about its actual percent of bots (reality is likely closer to 50 percent than the 5 percent it claims) and its numbers go down even more. Twitter continues to lie and folks like the ones in this article expose them ... not good either because every advertising dollar it's getting is "truthfully" reaching fewer actual humans.