[murphyslab]

> I've seen a lot of sentiment from people that they see more bots, hate speech, and irrelevant content on their timelines. Maybe what I'm hearing is just anecdotal evidence or stories in a bubble?

1. Note that they do not unambiguously define bots; it's "bots and content scrapers" lumped together:

> Blocked bots and content scrapers at a rate +37% greater than 2022. On average, we prevent more than 1M bots signup attacks each day and we’ve reduced DM spam by 95%.

2. I suspect it's a matter of signal-to-noise. Yes, the absolute bot count could be down, but how does it compare to the number of humans using X/Twitter and the volume of content which they are contributing each day? I've tried to find reliable statistics on this, but to no avail. My anecdotal experience is that fewer people I've followed are still regularly using X/Twitter since the Musk acquisition. Some are over at Post.News, some at Threads, some have shifted to Mastodon. It's a very fragmented experience now.

[antifa]

Sometimes I click a link to twitter, get log-in-walled or see the head of a tweet thread that's missing the rest of the thread. I wonder if they measure that as a successful "scrape bot blocked"?