Twitter says up to 8.5% of its monthly active users about 23 million are automatons. Twitterbot programs are programs that produce automated posts on Twitter, automatically follow Twitter users, or acquire instant followers for anybody who wants to pay to buy them. The number of automated and potentially fraudulent Twitter users is the SECs business, as a publicly traded company, as well as the number of users is most definitely the SEC’s business. There are bots that carry out good deeds, such as live-tweets earthquakes in the San Francisco Bay area using real-time seismographic information.”]