A "spam/bot" account, by definition, isn't lurking and just reading tweets.
The "top 10%" of twitter users are responsible for 80%+ of posts and are mostly politics.
So, if you say "Only 5% of users are bots" that could be a huge, huge percentage of actual-users-who-post-shit.
Twitter might be telling a misleading truth by saying only 5% of users are bots. 5% of the users being bots could result in 30-40-50% of tweets originating from bots. The more telling stat would be which percentage of tweets/likes/etc are by bots.
A "spam/bot" account, by definition, isn't lurking and just reading tweets.
The "top 10%" of twitter users are responsible for 80%+ of posts and are mostly politics.
So, if you say "Only 5% of users are bots" that could be a huge, huge percentage of actual-users-who-post-shit.
Twitter might be telling a misleading truth by saying only 5% of users are bots. 5% of the users being bots could result in 30-40-50% of tweets originating from bots. The more telling stat would be which percentage of tweets/likes/etc are by bots.