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Twitter Suspended 70 Million Accounts In Past Two Months, Says Report (theverge.com)
According to The Washington Post, Twitter has suspended 70 million accounts in the past two months as part of a crackdown on malicious activity on its platform. "The rate of suspensions for May and June is reportedly twice the company's October 2017 suspension rate," reports The Verge. From the report: In a blog post last month, Twitter said it had been working to improve its safety policies, and that its "systems identified and challenged more than 9.9 million potentially spammy or automated accounts per week."
The Post reports that the change in enforcement could cause a decline in users for the company's second quarter, although a Twitter executive told the publication that many of the accounts rarely tweeted, and would therefore not dramatically impact the company's active user count. A Twitter spokesperson said in a statement to The Verge that the company noted in its first-quarter shareholder letter this year that âoeongoing information quality effortsâ had negatively impacted monthly users, and that the efforts could continue to impact user numbers in the future.
The Post reports that the change in enforcement could cause a decline in users for the company's second quarter, although a Twitter executive told the publication that many of the accounts rarely tweeted, and would therefore not dramatically impact the company's active user count. A Twitter spokesperson said in a statement to The Verge that the company noted in its first-quarter shareholder letter this year that âoeongoing information quality effortsâ had negatively impacted monthly users, and that the efforts could continue to impact user numbers in the future.
So many of them belonged to super pac's like Correct the record that were used to by pac's to troll people?
Happened to me as well a few times. Their algorithms need some work.
Biggest issue is that the unlock via a text message doesn't work (for me). You first have to click a captcha, then they want to send you a text to the number you registered. That then fails, with the message that they can't text to your carrier, even though I confirmed that number by a text sent by them... Then it takes support 2-3 days to unlock your account with apologies and the message that they don't reply to emails.
Not a big thing, it's just twitter, but crappy nonetheless for such a big name in social media
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Why not 700 million? Why not all of them especially the POTUS?
The world would be a far better place if Twitter ceased to exist today.
Not that I really use Twatter for much anyways.
Per Alec Guiness: It's a wretched hive of scum and villainy.
70 million accounts purged that "rarely tweeted". So they killed a lot of accounts people set up to automate tweeting new blogposts or something. How is this a "crackdown on malicious activity"?
Please cite a post he has made that and the particular term of service it violated.
They got rid of 70 million accounts nobody gave a fuck about anyway. Thanks Twitter for making our world a little bit safer.
There's plenty more where they came from.
Why am I reminded of that scene from Enemy At The Gate?
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Get rid of Twitter.
things that make you go um...
As long as they fail to shut down Trump's account, they are willfully ignoring their own policies in order to remain relevant. Selective enforcement is always used for covert abuse. Twitter is a Trump supporter.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
And all the nazis and toxic violent right wingers
Right on brothers!
Capcha: benign
You don't have it on the internet.
Now you know what these people's true feelings are. They would love the SOVIET UNION.
and political pandering to the "Russian" hysteria.
They shut down half of their Bulgarian active base just because Bulgaria (an EU country) uses cyrillic.
https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-44252785
The American liberal idiocy is as hilarious as the American liberal illiteracy.
If they were serious about removing the bots and automated accounts the simplest way would be turn off the API systemwide and put CAPTCHA tests with 2FA for all logins, but then i suspect the true number of human users would not impress investors.
Please cite a post he has made that and the particular term of service it violated.
You might be a Nazi... if you support Donald Trump. Or put another way, here's your sign.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
And drinkypoo might be a child molester. The investigation is still ongoing.
And drinkypoo might be a child molester. The investigation is still ongoing.
And you are definitely a coward, and committing libel. Run along, libelous coward.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
until they suspend 100% of their accounts. I'm pretty sure violence will drop slightly and people will gain a few IQ points in the process.
Only the State obtains its revenue by coercion. - Murray Rothbard
Is it just blatent illegal activity or just part of the "war on information"? I'm guessing a bit of both.
Boohoo. Not a public forum. Eat a cock rightards. Buy your own servers if you want speech.
Only Americans rant about "liberals".
If you want to pretend not to be an American you have to stop speaking like one if you want anyone to believe your lies.
If you support Trump youre a pussygrabbing nazi and we all think you have excrement for brains.
-Love,
The Rest of the Fucking Planet
Gerrymandering
Voter supression laws
American Public Education is 37th in the world
But you'll love being African-poor! BIGLY.
Youre complaining a free service you paid NOTHING for stopped giving you their shit for free?
Spotted the American!!
Buy your own server you freeloading cunt.
Bruce is that you? ;)
soooo guilty
This. X10000000
Created an account a few hours ago. Select a few of the recommended people to follow. Go to log in a few hours later. Locked. I can unlock if I give them my phone number. Thanks, but Iâ(TM)ll pass.
Correction, they are wannabe pussy-grabbers. They are too beta to ever get that close to a pussy in the first place. Trump is just like them, except he inherited enough money so he pays to get close enough.