Ukraine hits Russian Datacentre causing a 29% drop in US Twitter posts(thelondoneconomic.com) |
Ukraine hits Russian Datacentre causing a 29% drop in US Twitter posts(thelondoneconomic.com) |
The quoted tweet says that 21-29% of traffic on twitter is bots.
It doesn't say anything about 29% of traffic having actually measurably stopped, does it?
Elsewhere on HN people are pointing out that the "bot traffic" coming from yandex that has stopped is the web scraper bots updating their search engine.
Far-right bot accounts ‘fall silent’ as Ukraine strikes cripple Russian data centres
This is the second time today that an article on this subject was submitted to hn with an adulterated title. It's too bad too because it's an interesting subject even without the incorrect/bait titles.
Here is the other one:
I wonder if this is what is being referred to
> Cloudflare reports that bot traffic from the Yandex network has dropped to just 0.4% of the maximum number of HTTP requests recorded in the past two weeks
Cloudflare doesn't track twitter posts, does it? But requests to sites on its network. The kind of thing Yandex's search crawlers would be hitting.
Also note (I think) the TH article also initially claimed this was talking about bot posts on social media, but now doesn't?