Elon Musk's method for tracking down bots may be useless, but finding a better formula is tougher than you think.
, which gave Musk’s account a relatively high bot score. Menczer says that looking at 100 accounts will not be representative of Twitter’s daily active users, and different samples will produce wildly different results. “I want to hope that that was a joke,” Menczer says of the methodology.
Menczer and others say that spotting bots is a game of cat and mouse. But they add that it may become significantly more challenging in the future as spammers useTwitter itself is better equipped to spot bots using machine learning because it has access to a lot more data about each account. This includes a user’s full history of activity, as well as the different IP addresses and devices they use.
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