Twitter suspends over half a million spam accounts each day

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Twitter suspends over half a million spam accounts each day
17 May 2022
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Twitter's CEO, Parag Agarwal,

responded in a series of tweets, defending the firm and discussing spam accounts on the microblogging platform. This comes only days after Elon Musk, the co-founder of Tesla, put his Twitter purchase plan on hold pending an inquiry into bogus or spam accounts.

Several sources indicate that Musk has put the deal on hold in order to secure a better bargain on the platform. Acorrding to Tesla's CEO, a reduced price is "not out of the question."

Parag Agarwal began his tweets by stating that Twitter is "highly encouraged to detect and remove as much spam as we possibly can," because spam accounts negatively impact actual users' experiences on Twitter. He further informed that Advanced spam campaigns use a combination of humans and automation to avoid detection, making them sophisticated and difficult to catch.

Agarwal also mentioned that spam accounts' techniques are always changing. He said, "You can't develop a set of spam-detection criteria today and expect them to operate tomorrow. They will not. We suspend almost half a million spam accounts every day, generally before any of you even see them on Twitter. Every week, we also lock millions of accounts that we suspect of being spam."

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