Elon Musk Wants To Get Rid Of Bots On Twitter Despite Half His Followers Being ‘Fake’

Bots are facing the chopping block following Elon Musk's Twitter takeover, which means the new social media overlord could lose loads of followers.

"I also want to make Twitter better than ever by enhancing the product with new features, making the algorithms open source to increase trust, defeating the spam bots, and authenticating all humans," he said.

"Twitter has tremendous potential—I look forward to working with the company and the community of users to unlock it."

If you have never come across a spam bot online, let us explain. Bots on Twitter are automated accounts that are designed to mimic the activity of real users on the social media platform.

They can be used to spread misinformation or scams.

Musk said that fake spam accounts 'make the product much worse'.

"If I had a Dogecoin for every crypto scam I saw, we’d have 100 billion Dogecoin," he said.

Although Musk does have a higher than average fake followership, it is not uncommon for prominent social media personalities to have some level of bot following.

Celebrities like Kim Kardashian - who boasts 72.2 million followers - has a fake follower count at approximately 45 per cent, and Taylor Swift has a low 28.7 per cent.

Current Twitter policies are already in place to address spam bots and fake accounts, but the issue remains a consistent thorn in the side of the social media platform.

How Musk intends to solve the problem by authenticating 'all real humans' on the website remains to be seen, as the tech billionaire is yet to elaborate on his plans.