rlv567 Loc: Baguio City, Philippines

Twitter accounts are 80% bots, expert says

By Brian Livingston - (email technical newsletter "Ask Woody")

"More than 80% of the accounts on Twitter are likely to be nothing more than automated bots, according to a study by the head of intelligence at F5, an international network-security firm with offices in 43 countries.

Even worse, bots represent as much as 99% of the login traffic at some highly visible websites — perhaps even one of your favorites.

These are the conclusions of a study by Dan Woods, who was a cyberoperations officer with the CIA prior to taking his current role at F5 six years ago."

Loren - in Beautiful Baguio City -- (I don't use it - and never will!)

Canisdirus

Makes some sense...information...control of information is power.

Look at Covid...manipulate the media...spook the herd...and you can get them to do...anything.
Climate change...same methodology is being utilized.

If it works...and it does...it will be used more and more.

Mark Sturtevant Loc: Grand Blanc, MI

Well, our local troll has peed in the pool again.

joehel2 Loc: Cherry Hill, NJ

I thought the bots were all busy giving products on Amazon five stars.😊

rlv567 Loc: Baguio City, Philippines

Finish up your cool-aid and get to bed.

Loren - in Beautiful Baguio City

TriX Loc: Raleigh, NC

No one has to manufacture information about Covid or climate change - all you have to do is look around you. Having experienced Covid and had several friends die, I KNOW how serious it is, and if you doubt climate change, just look at the data from NOAA, NCAR, NCDC and other global agencies.

No conspiracy theories here - facts. Hard to believe intelligent well informed people who believe in science are even debating these things.

Unwatching this thread now (headed for the attic anyway). I know how these things go, and you can never convince the non believers. When you show them documented facts from the top medical and climate scientists in the world backed up with irrefutable data (NOAA satellite images and historical records for example), they dispute the facts or cry conspiracy. Even when 99% of scientists agree, they’d rather get their “facts” from lying politicians or discredited conspiracy rags. Waste of time arguing with these people, and this anti-science trend does not bode well for our country.

TonyBot

You got something against BOTs?

srg

Those annoying climate and covid people would be so much easier to tolerate if they would just stop eating babies.

scallihan Loc: Tigard, OR

I've wondered about that. When I see someone with X huge number of followers, I wonder how many just peeked in and went away never to return, but are counted as followers, or as you said, are just bots set up to maximize their numbers. I don't tweet and never will, but it's irritating when a personality has a Twitter Poll, as if they think everyone is on Twitter.

Drbobcameraguy Loc: Eaton Ohio

I don't believe in the climate change people for one reason. We have data they are using from the last 100 years at best. We know that co2 levels were at least 3 times higher than they are now and everything grew great and animals prospered. Then we had an ice age then we had a heat wave then another ice age. Being a well educated person in archeology and a couple other fields I have a hard time believing people that think they can predict the climate on a hundred or less years of data when we have several thousand years of data that disagree with the co2 causing death to all. Also they always stutter when you ask them about the solar cycles in relationship to the Earth's orbit. But I'm sure as long as we continue to give them money they will save us. Lol lol lol remember the dust bowl years? I can go on and debate honestly with facts if you would like to see why I refuse to believe.

Canisdirus

Yeah,...that's why the CDC is apologizing and Fauci is under investigation.
That's why when the govt. tried to sue Pfizer...the judge threw them out of court because the judge found the govt. was complicit itself...therefore had no standing...dirty hands.

Numbers were pushed all over the place...to ensure everyone fell into crisis mode...and most did.
Anyone who had Covid and died...no matter what other problems they had...went right into the Covid stats...on purpose.


Hey look...it's all over anyway. Whatever these vaccines and boosters are doing to folks...it's simply going to happen. No going back now.


One last thing which should be noted.
Politicians on the whole are corrupt...but not stupid.
There were several major nation shaking protests globally in 2019....Argentina...Venezuela...France (which frightened the elites the most...really frightened).

Covid solved all of that for their respective politicians...all protests were made illegal...for safety...safety.

The protests of course fell apart in 2020.

And if you think the lesson there was lost on all politicians around the globe...I have a bridge for sale.

More to come...because...it worked.

Drbobcameraguy Loc: Eaton Ohio

You are a very astute individual. Nice to read your post

scallihan Loc: Tigard, OR

Actually I know people in the actuarial covid-counting business, and comorbiditues were taken into consideration and categorized as to the proximation of COD. Some people do think a cancer patient who died of Covid would have died of cancer anyway. But so much cancer is survivable (I'm an example) that it's obvious when the COD was indeed covid.