Twitter’s just announced its quarterly earnings, in which it revealed its user base has shrunk by nine million monthly users over the last quarter. This is a good thing. That’s because the company’s been purging bots from its platform, a mission it’s been on  since July. The initial exercise saw Twitter boot tens of millions out, and it appears that the ongoing effort has had an effect on its monthly average user count this quarter too. We can’t confirm if all nine million accounts dropped were bots, but it’s almost certain that the vast majority of them were. Ultimately, that’s good for…

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