As Twitter's relationship with Elon Musk continues to fizzle, the platform aims to eliminate more than one million every day.
To keep the platform a safe space for all users, the social media giant is now regularly removing any fake accounts, senseless comments, or spam tweets clogging cyberspace traffic.
Twitter is Removing Spam Accounts Each Day
Not every day a microblogging site like Twitter will have a clean feed to show for the users. Behind this deceptive facade lies millions of spam accounts and unwanted identities that need to be taken down as soon as possible.
According to TechRadar's recent report, Twitter is continuously eradicating any bogus or spam accounts on the app because they could be a source of ransomware or malware.
Following this decision, Tesla CEO Elon Musk took a swipe at the platform as he demanded "transparency" regarding the number of bots on social media.
Regarding this, the tech billionaire told Twitter that they should share more information about the bots on the platform. Particularly, the firm said it has been maintaining the number of spam accounts to under 5%.
However, Musk said that the Twitter bots are not only below 5%. Because of this, he decided to discontinue the ongoing $44 billion deal with the social media titan.
In response to this, the executives mentioned during the press conference that they have been keeping the number of bot accounts to less than 5% since 2013.
Additionally, Twitter said that they rely on internal data to determine the number of spam accounts. In doing so, they use the phone numbers and IP addresses to check if a real human is behind an account, Bloomberg reported.
Musk is Hellbent on Defeating Spam Bots
It's hard to detect if the account, for instance, is run by a genuine human. With that in mind, Twitter sets its plan to continue analyzing the Twitter accounts in manual mode.
Twitter explained that it sends reports to the shareholders after running both the public and private data on the platform. Later, it will notify them regarding the number of bots.
Furthermore, Twitter is aware that the nature of data is quite complex to comprehend, and sometimes, a simple analysis from an external auditor won't suffice either.
The company did not mention the particular type of data that it would sell to the buyer.
However, Elon Musk has committed to mass-remove all the existing spam bots before the official takeover takes place. He cited that he would continue to "defeat" them, or he would "die trying."
Two years ago, Twitter resorted to a series of bot clean-ups for one reason. Thousands of spam accounts were used to take advantage of political propaganda amid the COVID-19 crisis.
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Written by Joseph Henry
