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. without an agreed—on definition, elon musk had a go at trying to estimate the number anyway. in his countersuit his team claimed to use a tool called botometer, and concluded that 33% of all twitter accounts were bots. the problem is botometer