Tag: bots

Instagram Has a Bot Problem, Despite ‘Purge’, Say Researchers
After looking at over 10.2 million accounts and studying the behavior of 20,000 purchased fake accounts, some Italian researchers have concluded that Instagram still has a bot prob...
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Most of Your Traffic Is Human, Says comScore
Good news, everyone! Unless you're one of the unlucky few publishers on the wrong end of the spectrum, chances are good that the vast majority of your traffic is living, breathing...
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Twitter Says It Has About 23 Million Active Bots [UPDATED]
UPDATE: To clarify Twitter's statement in the filing, the (up to) 8.5 percent of accounts that "automatically contacted our servers for regular updates without any...
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Bots Now Outnumber Humans On The Web
The Internet is the greatest communication tool that mankind has ever invented. As of June 30, 2012, there were almost 2.5 billion humans connected to the Internet. That number has...
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The Bot Pandemic Is Hurting Online Advertisers
Facebook advertising has had its fair share of problems. Major players like General Mo...
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Twitter Tops 500 Million Users; “Users” is a Loose Term, of Course
Social media "users," as we are all well aware, can have quite the variance to the amount of "use" they give to the social network in question. Not only that, but the word "user" d...
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Bot or Not Lets You Test the Human Element in Any Twitter Account
If you're active on Twitter, you've probably encountered plenty of bots - fake users that spam the hell out of you with links, free iPad offers, and other dubious things. These ac...
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