One pitfall of traffic analysis like this is that it omits an important confounding variable: sites that generate new user-generated content quickly will be more likely to be targeted by net-new scraping traffic.
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How many Instagram users are bots? How about Facebook? X?
BlueSky?
Now let’s zoom out:
What is the relationship between the growth of “agent”-based bot technology availability and the growing number of social media “users”?