These numbers may shock you! In 2017, researchers found that up to 15% of Twitter accounts are actually Twitter bots. That's 48 million accounts. Four years later, another study determined that only 55% of Instagram profiles are real people with legitimate accounts. Not all bots are bad — the bots that tweet daily weather reports, for example — but the flood of malicious bots and fake followers on social media doesn't look like it's letting up any time soon.