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by ahoka 490 days ago
How many of those are bots?
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How many users on X (Twitter) or Bluesky are bots? It's reasonable to assume the percentages are the same, given the lack of public information for the major text-based broadcast social networks. X is estimated to have 250M daily active users. Mark Zuckerberg recently stated that Threads' DAUs were 100M. Threads achieving a bit under half the size in such a short time is impressive, especially since Threads still lacks many features that X has had for years.
> It's reasonable to assume the percentages are the same

It's reasonable to assume they're worse. Bluesky doesn't have Facebook's network or surveillance apparatus. Neither does Twitter, except it's a higher-value target than Bluesky and Threads combined.

And how many are Instagram users who created a Threads account after being prompted but never actually use it?
Daily Active Users (DAUs) and Monthly Active User counts represent the amount of users that perform activity on the application daily and monthly, respectively.
There is no industry standard for DAUs or MAUs. Take it all with a hefty grain of salt.