Updated: The initial version of this story reported that 23 million Twitter users were bots, based on the 8.5 percent of Twitter users who use an automatic platform to access the service.
While some researchers have placed the number of fraudulent or spam Twitter accounts at around 20 million, Twitter's Q2 filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission estimates the number closer to 13.5 million users, or under 5 percent of its 271 million users.
Twitter derived the figure after an internal sampling of accounts.
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