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As many as 48 million Twitter accounts aren't people, says study
CNBC ^ | Michael Newberg

Posted on 03/11/2017 8:21:00 PM PST by ConservativeStatement

A big chunk of those "likes," "retweets," and "followers" lighting up your Twitter (TWTR)account may not be coming from human hands. According to new research from the University of Southern California, up to 15 percent of Twitter accounts are in fact bots rather than people.

The research could be troubling news for Twitter, which has struggled to grow its user base in the face of growing competition from Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and others.

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: twitter; twitteraccounts
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1 posted on 03/11/2017 8:21:00 PM PST by ConservativeStatement
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To: ConservativeStatement

well they sued to be people- now they are delicious soylent green chips


2 posted on 03/11/2017 8:23:10 PM PST by Bob434
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To: Bob434

used to be- not sued to be- where’s my editor at?


3 posted on 03/11/2017 8:23:36 PM PST by Bob434
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To: ConservativeStatement

48 million? Are you sure it’s not 11 million illeg..Oh wrong thread.


4 posted on 03/11/2017 8:24:51 PM PST by max americana (For the 9th time FIRED LIBERALS from our company at this election, and every election since 2008)
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To: ConservativeStatement
Fake-book had this problem too.

"Facebook estimates that 4.8 percent are duplicate accounts, 2.4 percent are user-misclassified accounts, and 1.5 percent are undesirable accounts. ... Facebook estimates 8.7 percent, or 83.09 million accounts."

Source.

5 posted on 03/11/2017 8:24:56 PM PST by Steely Tom (Liberals think in propaganda)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Are they cats and dogs? Ferrets? Robots?


6 posted on 03/11/2017 8:25:21 PM PST by TBP (0bama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: ConservativeStatement

At last . . . an explanation for the followers of Zero.

FAKE TWITTER FOLLOWERS.

How low can you go?


7 posted on 03/11/2017 8:26:02 PM PST by Disestablishmentarian
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To: ConservativeStatement

Is this a harmless lie, or misinformation that can inflate the Twitter stock price? I tend to think the later.
That ‘dog’ has got to be curbed and better controlled.


8 posted on 03/11/2017 8:31:09 PM PST by lee martell
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To: ConservativeStatement

The year 2017:

Where 48 million twitter users aren’t people, but Soylent Green is.

CC


9 posted on 03/11/2017 8:35:42 PM PST by Celtic Conservative (CC: purveyor of cryptic, snarky posts since December, 2000..)
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To: Steely Tom
Facebook estimates that 4.8 percent are duplicate accounts, 2.4 percent are user-misclassified accounts, and 1.5 percent are undesirable accounts.

I didn't know FB had accounts for undesirables. Maybe I should sign up after all.
10 posted on 03/11/2017 8:41:07 PM PST by Garth Tater (What's mine is mine.)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Twitter is much more useful to me for news than Facebook. Concise, You can scan hundreds of Tweets very quickly.


11 posted on 03/11/2017 8:51:25 PM PST by iowamark (I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Politicians buy fake twitter followers to make them look more popular than they are. This is one of the reasons President Trump won the messaging war in the campaign. He had 20 million real followers. When he tweeted, people received the message. But Clinton’s were fake. When she tweeted, her messages went to a robot. She could not get her messages out for free like President Trump could, and had to buy expensive TV advertising to reach people.


12 posted on 03/11/2017 9:04:17 PM PST by Vince Ferrer
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To: ConservativeStatement

I’ll never get the appeal of Twitter.


13 posted on 03/11/2017 9:18:45 PM PST by Borges
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To: ConservativeStatement

undocumented twits


14 posted on 03/11/2017 9:20:34 PM PST by xp38
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15 posted on 03/11/2017 9:32:58 PM PST by rlmorel (President Donald J. Trump ... Making Liberal Heads Explode, 140 Characters at a Time)
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16 posted on 03/11/2017 10:11:11 PM PST by Chode (My job is not to represent the world. My job is to represent the United States of America-#45 DJT)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Hillary Clinton supporters.


17 posted on 03/12/2017 3:33:07 AM PDT by IndispensableDestiny
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To: ConservativeStatement

I’ve read that FB suffers from a significant “ghost account” problem. Accounts where the identity of the user can’t be confirmed. Advertisers are paying for “eyeballs”, but what happens when 25% of those “eyeballs” don’t really exist?


18 posted on 03/12/2017 7:40:50 AM PDT by Tallguy
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To: Chode

Dang! I can’t read it, Chode!


19 posted on 03/12/2017 8:13:17 AM PDT by rlmorel (President Donald J. Trump ... Making Liberal Heads Explode, 140 Characters at a Time)
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To: rlmorel

maybe it didn’t post, try the link

http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/dilbert/images/1/11/Dilbert2006114659027.gif/revision/latest?cb=20110202151348


20 posted on 03/12/2017 8:43:53 AM PDT by Chode (My job is not to represent the world. My job is to represent the United States of America-#45 DJT)
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