What's the definition of a bot in social media?

Question

There is much discussion of the twitter deal and about bots in social media, what percentage of user accounts are bots, etc. It occurred to me that if that case gets into the courts there will need to be a definition of what a bot is or isn't in order to ascertain percentages of user accounts.What is your definition for a social media bot? Does it include the number of humans able to use a single account (e.g. customer service)? Does it include intent behind the account (e.g. product announcements)? With the anonymity of online personas, how can someone determine bot-or-not?

jamesgalaxy · Accepted Answer

i think a bot account is an account that is only used for one function, and does not represent a full hunan person, like only posting referral links, or being rhetorical about only one specific topic. i think about 98% of twitter is bot accounts.