so how many bots are there on twitter? first of all twitter claims that less than 5% of all of its daily active users are bots. elon musk, though, says that figure is nonsense. what do you think it is? what is the... if it is not 5%, what is it? i think it is a number- that is probably at least four or five times that number. this is why elon musk, at least he claims, is backing out of the deal. he has even accused twitter of fraud. the centre of the disagreement comes down to a definition. what actually is a bot? michael carney is founder of twitter bot0rnot. you have an account thatjust tweets out gibberish based on a computer algorithm, but then one time, if that account is tweeted from someone�*s cellphone and a real person making their honest comment on the world — is that a bot account or not? so it is not a static thing that exists.