Posted on 07/17/2018 1:44:59 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
Twitter suspended at least 58 million accounts in the last quarter of 2017 according to numbers reviewed by the Associated Press.
The new figure comes after the company confirmed that it separately booted another 70 million fake accounts from its platform between May and June.
Twitter has been aggressively cracking down on fake accounts that have long plagued its platform. Analysts have speculated that Twitter in the past has been reluctant to kick off such users out of fear of hurting its user growth numbers.
The companies stock initially took a brief hit after news of its move to remove accounts.
Twitter’s willingness to ramp up enforcement might be influenced by its rising financial fortunes. Wall Street had downplayed the stock for years, but the company has been gaining favor with investors as it moves to significantly raise users and interaction.
Twitter is removing accounts as it tries to improve the quality and “health” of its platform.
During the 2016 election, bots and fake accounts spread misinformation that landed the company in hot water with lawmakers.
Twitter has 336 million monthly active users total. This number is based on accounts that have logged in within the last 30 days. As a result, the removed accounts have not made a significant impact on the total active account numbers.
These fake accounts were used by liberals and the Democratic Media Complex to tell us what Americans believed. They were used to create, promote, and drive 'narratives'.
It was only after 'Russia influenced the election' that Twitter and Facebook were forced to take action against fake accounts.
They probably also used them to extract more revenue from their advertisers. Their earnings going forward are worth watching.
10 Leftists
57,999,990 others...
Hopefully some advertisers sue them for fraud.
If the SEC actually did anything other than watching porn they could also go after Twitter for defrauding investors...
so far, they haven’t deleted either of my fake twitter accounts, so i guess they’re only deleting double-secret fake accounts ...
Brilliant.
Now what can we do about all this?
Putting an ad in a printed community shopping newspaper given out in the front door area of a grocery store won’t compete any longer.
Facebook, Twitter,etc can totally wipe out the right with this method.
To look up inaugural address of Donald J.Trump, Google will soon answer: See white male supremacist hate speech.
Search results for others now deleted.
Yes, I know what you mean. Seems like that may be where we are headed doesn’t it.
A bogus throwaway Twit account I created 6 years ago to check out potential hires probably got nuked.
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