In response to billionaire Elon Musk’s request for additional information, Twitter executives revealed in a press briefing on Thursday that they eliminate more than 1 million fake accounts daily. This new information sheds light on attempts to lessen dangerous automated bots.
The presentation follows Musk’s vow to scuttle a $44 billion bid to buy Twitter unless the firm can demonstrate that fake and bot accounts make up less than 5% of those who use the social media platform to view advertisements.
After purchasing Twitter, Musk stated that one of his top tasks will be to “defeat the spam bots or die trying.”
The business reiterated on a conference call that fake accounts made up significantly under 5% of customers who receive advertisements, a statistic that hasn’t changed since 2013 according to its public filings.
In order to determine and report to shareholders the percentage of spam and bot accounts on the site, Twitter claimed human reviewers manually check thousands of Twitter accounts randomly using a combination of public and private data.
The business stated that it does not think such accounts could be calculated outside since it would demand private information, but it would not elaborate on the kind of information it would give Musk.
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