100 Mind-Blowing Bots Facts That You Didn't Know

Around 15% of active Twitter accounts are social bots. This means there are nearly 48 million accounts that are not controlled by humans.

Wikipedia is run and maintained by thousands of humans and hundreds of bots. Everyone knows Wikipedia is powered by thousands of human contributors. On the other hand, most people don’t realize hundreds of bots contribute to the effort, too. ClueBot NG catches vandalism on Wikipedia pages almost in real-time. A variety of other bots contribute standardised data to the online encyclopedia. This combination of humans and bots ensures Wikipedia runs without any problems 24 hours per day, 7 days per week.

CAPTCHA is a long acronym. It stands for “Completely Automatic Public Turning Test to Tell Computers and Humans Apart.” Even though some artificial intelligence can get through CATCHPA, it’s still useful in blocking some bots.

Nearly half (47.4 per cent) of all Internet traffic came from bots in 2022, which is a 5.1% increase over 2021 (Imperva)