Nearly 8.5 percent of Twitter users could be robots who never actually use the service, is the latest salvo aimed at Twitter, which has been struggling with user growth as rival Facebook continues to distance itself from the micro blogging platform. Unverified Twitter users Twitter’s SEC documents show that out of their 284 million users, 24 million are apps or pieces of software connecting to the platform. The SEC document pointed to mobile applications that the users sometimes connect “with no discernible user action involved” as they noted their own calculations on active users “were not independently verified.” Key snippets…
24 Million Twitter Users Don't Tweet, Could Be Robots
Mark Melin
Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.