Twitter Reveals It Has 23 Million Monthly Active Bots

Twitter’s new filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission reveals that the social site hosts as many as 23 million monthly active bots. Currently, Twitter has approximately 271 million monthly active users, so bots account for about 8.5 percent of this number.

In the three months ended June 30, 2014, approximately 11 percent of all active users solely used third-party applications to access Twitter.  However, only up to approximately 8.5 percent of all active users used third party applications that may have automatically contacted our servers for regular updates without any discernable additional user-initiated action.  The