Twitter Bots Problem

Discussions center on the prevalence of bots on Twitter, their impact on authentic interactions and activity levels, and challenges in detecting or labeling them, with mentions extending to bots on other platforms like Reddit and HN.

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Sample Comments

raspberry1337 Dec 18, 2022 View on HN

Twitter has less bots yets more activity than ever. In what dimension do these Hacker news posters live?

mawadev Jan 10, 2026 View on HN

Why do I feel like my genuine comment has been overtaken by more bots posting a lot of meaningless text?

mdrzn Mar 22, 2024 View on HN

If the main complaint is "Twitter is full of bots", why would people use this? Serious question.

slater May 21, 2022 View on HN

Yeah, bots be a thing on Twitter :)

c7THEC2DDFVV2V Sep 20, 2023 View on HN

given twitter is 90% bots, this is both the best and worst idea possible.

shortrounddev2 Nov 30, 2024 View on HN

Reddit and Twitter are replete with bots

penjelly Aug 21, 2023 View on HN

there are still TONS of bots, despite what musk says

lm28469 Nov 24, 2024 View on HN

Interactions on Twitter are like 50-80% bots, it's not a resources problem

sandworm101 Jul 7, 2024 View on HN

Thats what twitter bots are for.

pgeorgi Jan 23, 2019 View on HN

There are tons of bots on Twitter