Platform Bot Problems
The cluster focuses on the rampant presence of bot accounts on social platforms like Twitter, debates over fighting versus monetizing bots, and strategies for detection and mitigation including API fees and captchas.
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If you can't stop the bots, might as well monetize them?
A lot of everyone's users are bots.
Well, it's clearly not working since there are millions of bot accounts.
Too many bots, that's the problem.
Think about why the bots exist - it's almost always data theft or other schemes to abuse your API to profit. Taking money from your pocket.
Don't you see? The people paying for the API are running bots...
There's a likelihood that 99% of accounts will be bots :-)
Why add more bots to a platform already overrun by bots?
no idea where you're getting that idea from but it's wrong, that is not how you generate revenue from bot accounts if that was the goal
More likely hundreds of millions are bots.