Bots enter the chat: Elon's Twitter deal on hold

On the weekend Elon tweeted:  Twitter deal temporarily on hold pending details supporting calculation that spam/fake accounts do indeed represent less than 5% of users. Then he hit pause on his takeover deal with Twitter. Then all hell broke loose.

What are bots? On social media, they are automated accounts that can do the same things as real human beings: send out tweets, follow other users, and like and retweet postings by others. These social media bots work through an account like a real human user and are a mix of algorithms and coding to create process a task or a set of functions. So today, Alec and Sascha look at the world of bots and whether it's as big a problem as Elon says it is.

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