wp-plugin-hostgator domain was triggered too early. This is usually an indicator for some code in the plugin or theme running too early. Translations should be loaded at the init action or later. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 6.7.0.) in /home4/scienrds/scienceandnerds/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6114ol-scrapes domain was triggered too early. This is usually an indicator for some code in the plugin or theme running too early. Translations should be loaded at the init action or later. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 6.7.0.) in /home4/scienrds/scienceandnerds/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6114Source: https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/7\/7\/23198893\/twitter-million-spam-account-removals-per-day-musk-buyout<\/a> Twitter told reporters on Thursday that it kicks over 1 million spam accounts off of its platform a day, according to a report from Reuters<\/em><\/a>. <\/em>That\u2019s double the number CEO Parag Agrawal stated in a May Twitter thread<\/a>, though the company maintains its long-held position that bots make up less than 5 percent of its active user base. The number of spam accounts and how Twitter deals with them has become a sticking point in recent months<\/a>, as Elon Musk threatened to back away from his buyout of the company citing concerns the company is downplaying the scale of the problem.<\/p>\n In May, Agrawal tweeted<\/a> about spam to discuss the situation \u201cwith the benefit of data, facts, and context.\u201d In the thread, he said the platform suspends \u201cover half a million spam accounts every day\u201d and that it locks \u201cmillions of accounts each week\u201d it suspects to be spam. He also explained how Twitter got its 5 percent number, saying that it came from \u201cmultiple human reviews (in replicate) of thousands of accounts, that are sampled at random, consistently over time.\u201d The reviews also use private account data, such as the user\u2019s IP address and location.<\/p>\n We suspend over half a million spam accounts every day, usually before any of you even see them on Twitter. We also lock millions of accounts each week that we suspect may be spam \u2013 if they can\u2019t pass human verification challenges (captchas, phone verification, etc).<\/p>\n \u2014 Parag Agrawal (@paraga) May 16, 2022<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n Twitter didn\u2019t immediately respond to The Verge<\/em>\u2019s request for comment on whether Thursday\u2019s metric is an update to these numbers or if it\u2019s counting something different. According to The Guardian<\/em><\/a>, Twitter\u2019s latest figure includes users that aren\u2019t allowed to make accounts and, as such, are never counted as users.<\/p>\n Twitter and Musk struck a deal for the latter to buy out the company in April<\/a> to the tune of $44 billion. In May, though, Musk tweeted that the deal was \u201con hold,\u201d<\/a> alleging that Twitter\u2019s user base could be 20 percent bots or more<\/a>. He asked the company to prove that the 5 percent number it had reported was accurate and, in June, accused the company of withholding information<\/a>, saying it was \u201ctransparently refusing to comply with its obligations under the merger agreement.\u201d <\/p>\n
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