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The bot thing is obviously a pretext but I wouldn't be surprised if all the major social networks lie about what proportion of their active users are synthetic. In my experience, running ads on both Twitter and Facebook tends to drive an absurdly large amount of suspicious traffic if you don't very tightly target them. 5% seems unbelivably low just based on that experience and the experience of using Twitter in general.


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