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Mumbai. Amidst the deal with Elon Musk, micro-blogging site Twitter is removing more than one million spam accounts every day. Twitter said during a briefing with officials that more than 1 million spam accounts are being shut down from the platform every day. The company aims to pursue its deal with billionaire and Tesla CEO Elon Musk. In fact, Musk has put his deal on hold due to allegations of massive amounts of bots and spam accounts on Twitter.
Musk accuses Twitter
Tesla CEO has offered to buy Twitter for $44 billion. However, he has accused the platform of having a large number of bots and spam accounts. They have to prove Twitter has less than 5 percent bot and spam accounts on its platform or else they can cancel the deal. Twitter said on the call that spam accounts represent less than 5 percent of its active users each quarter.
How the bot account is tracked
To calculate how many accounts Twitter reported are spam, Twitter said it treated thousands of accounts using both public and private data such as IP addresses, phone numbers, geographic locations and how the accounts were active. reviews. Fake accounts on social media have always been a cause of problem. Advertisers rely on a social media platform's user base to determine where the money should be spent. Spam bots are also used to amplify messages and spread propaganda.
How the bot account is tracked
However, Twitter believes that not every automated account is a bad bot account. Last year, the company came up with a new label to identify what might be called good bot accounts, such as accounts that provide information about weather, health or news.
