Twitter suspends over 70 million accounts in 2 months

[rcjordan]

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-twitter-inc-suspensions/twitter-suspends-over-70-million-accounts-in-two-months-washington-post-idUSKBN1JW2XN

[littleman]

That's a huge percentage.  For the numbers to be that high there probably was very little policing before.  I guess the inflated numbers meant more to them than quality control.

[rcjordan]

Better article:

http://www.philly.com/philly/business/technology/twitter-is-sweeping-out-fake-accounts-like-never-before-putting-user-growth-at-risk-20180707.html

[BoL]

They wiped my legit signup in the process.

Their situation must be grim where they're aggressively weeding out the supposed minor % cost of automated accounts taking up resources.