Here's a closer look at the complications around bot accounts, and how they would be key in deciding the case.
At a basic level,"bots" are software programs that do automated tasks online, often with the aim of emulating how people behave.
The company says it wages a daily campaign against spam or fake accounts that keeps their number to less than five percent of users. "People can disagree on what should be considered a bot or a spam account," said Edwin Chen, a former Twitter employee, who is now CEO of content moderation firm Surge AI.
Twitter's lawsuit, which urges a court to force Musk to honor his buyout offer, could result in a trial or settlement talks that would need to plunge into the finer points of things like the firm's bot definitions and policies. Bots are used in more than three-quarters of security and fraud incidents that happen online, from spreading socially divisive posts to snapping up hot concert tickets and hacking, Hassan told AFP.Thus"advertising to bots isn't going to have a good close rate because bots don't buy products," analyst Rob Enderle told AFP previously.
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