Bad news on Twitter. The popular social network has admitted today that many of its users are bots. What does this mean? The Twitter, essentially admitted that there are many accounts automated bot, which merely serve to make retweeting content relevant to a specific topic, or just parroting slogans customer service.





In a recent document filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Twitter stated that the total number of bot accounts using the service stands at 23 million, the number is quite high, as the company's database contains 271 million users. This equates to a 8.5%. 8.5% in Twitter is not just regurgitate people and scheduled messages.





As the Quartz, the bot accounts are nothing more than spam and let's face it, the spam is not so desirable.



