Twitter Bots

Culling Twitter bots was one of Elon Musk's priorities when he took over Twitter. In fact, in his attempts to remove them, Twitter had recently blocked thousands of real users from accessing their accounts.

Elon Musk accidentally blocked thousands of Twitter users while trying to cull bots: Report

Almost immediately, as legitimate users found they were unable to access the platform, complaints began to flow in.

What Elon Musk tweeted on Disney not buying Twitter due to 'significant' no. of bots

Disney was contemplating buying Twitter in 2016 because as former CEO Bob Iger said, "It would be an excellent way to distribute Disney’s content around the world."

Bots, unregulated use of algorithms are threats to safe and trusted internet: Rajeev Chandrasekhar

Minister of State in Electronics and Information Technology Rajeev Chandrasekhar said this while responding to reports that Disney had found fake users on Twitter in 2016

Elon Musk's latest poll is about Twitter bots, again

The poll was taken by over 8.22 lakh people – barely a fraction of Elon Musk's 102.9 million Twitter followers.

Half of Joe Biden Twitter followers fake, says report. Elon Musk has this to say

According to Twitter, the bots are about 5 per cent of the active users. But, Elon Musk disagrees.

Watch: Twitter claims bots are less than 5%, says Elon Musk. Cue the laughter

Elon Musk said: “Currently I am being told that there is no way to know the number of bots on Twitter, its unknowable, it’s like the human soul basically.”

Ranvir Shorey tells Elon Musk: '5% bots on Twitter not as much a problem as 25% bigots'

While Elon Musk has not responded to the tweet yet, Ranvir Shorey appears to be pointing out that the tech billionaire's "free speech" policy on the social media platform to be a bigger problem than bots.