Battling Fake Accounts, Twitter To Slash Millions of Followers (nytimes.com)

Twitter will begin removing tens of millions of suspicious accounts from users' followers on Thursday, signaling a major new effort to restore trust on the popular but embattled platform. From a report: The reform takes aim at a pervasive form of social media fraud. Many users have inflated their followers on Twitter or other services with automated or fake accounts, buying the appearance of social influence to bolster their political activism, business endeavors or entertainment careers. Twitter's decision will have an immediate impact: Beginning on Thursday, many users, including those who have bought fake followers and any others who are followed by suspicious accounts, will see their follower numbers fall. While Twitter declined to provide an exact number of affected users, the company said it would strip tens of millions of questionable accounts from users' followers.

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Heh. Hasta la vista, "Influencers"

[TigerPlish]

I hope there's a ton of "influencers" in this purge. They're the most fakety-fake-fake of all "media personalities."

And deleting tons of legitimate accounts

[greenwow]

Our online marketing manager had her account deleted a few weeks ago, and her assistant's account was deleted sometime this year since January when she last used it. I just checked my account, and other people can't see my Tweets. Twitter is really shooting themselves in the foot with this.

Re:And deleting tons of legitimate accounts

[Anonymous Coward]

You work for the Internet Research Agency?

Re:And deleting tons of legitimate accounts

[mvdwege]

'Legitimate'. 'online marketing manager'.

You keep using that word. I don't think it means what you think it means.

There are other options

[knorthern knight]

> Tell me something, liitle conservative snowflakes: Where are all the
> conservative youtube, twitter, facebook, snapchat, instagram, etc of
> this world ? How come no conservative has ever come up with ideas like this ?

Want Youtube without the lib-left censors? ==> https://www.bitchute.com/

Want Twitter without the lib-left censors? ==> https://gab.ai/

Pointless?

[duke_cheetah2003]

Can they actually eliminate fake accounts faster than they are being created?

Re:Heh. Hasta la vista, "Influencers"

[ruddk]

Should be interesting to see if we will see a drop in followers for some of these celebrities.
I suppose it would be fraud. Claiming that you have X number of followers to people who pay to have you promote their stuff.