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by mrtksn 1501 days ago
There was this suggestion to conduct a sting operation of displaying captcha to a sample of users to determine the % of the bots.

Probably picking the sample is still challenging but at least can somewhat tell if the accounts in the sample are genuine.

The method in this article is so flawed that Larry Ellison, founder of a famous law firm, would count as an inactive account since haven't tweeted since 2012[0] and that person apparently looks into investing in Twitter[1]. How can be investing a billion in Twitter when he doesn't use Twitter at all?

[0]https://twitter.com/larryellison?lang=en

[1]https://www.grid.news/story/politics/2022/05/16/larry-elliso...