Twitter reports that it 'deletes more than 1 million spam accounts every day,' but Elon Musk changes policy?
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Twitter says it removes 1 million spam accounts a day | AP News
https://apnews.com/article/elon-musk-twitter-inc-technology-misinformation-social-media-e9fa93bc9132a4adf8535a8a34bebec9
Twitter removes over 1 million spam accounts daily | Reuters
Twitter says it suspends 1m spam users a day as Elon Musk row deepens | Twitter | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/jul/07/twitter-says-it-suspends-1m-spam-users-a-day-as-elon-musk-dispute-deepens
Twitter insists it has bots handled, claims it blocks 1 million spammers every day --The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/2022/7/7/23198893/twitter-million-spam-account-removals-per-day-musk-buyout
In April 2022, Twitter accepted a 5.6 trillion yen takeover offer from Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk. But then Musk has expressed dissatisfaction with Twitter's anti-spam policy, stating that the acquisition will be withheld until data confirms that 'spam and fake accounts are less than 5% of users.'
Elon Musk tweeted, 'Twitter acquisition can't move forward until Twitter bots prove to be less than 5%.' --GIGAZINE
by Daniel Oberhaus
In response to this, on Thursday, July 7, 2022, Twitter executives gathered media companies and held a telephone talk. We delete more than 1 million spam accounts every day, and in quarterly aggregates, we report that spam accounts are well below 5% of the total.
According to Twitter, we manually research the information of thousands of randomly extracted accounts by combining public information such as IP address, phone number, GPS information, operation when the account is active and private private information. , It was confirmed.
Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal will not be able to share private information with the outside world in May, so it is not possible to know from the outside what day and what count the number of daily active users was calculated per day. It explains that it cannot be done.
Unfortunately, we don't believe that this specific estimation can be performed externally, given the critical need to use both public and private information (which we can't share). Externally, it's not even possible to know which accounts are counted as mDAUs on any given day.
— Parag Agrawal (@paraga) May 16, 2022
The Washington Post, a daily newspaper, reports that the relationship between Mr. Musk's camp and Twitter has cooled in recent weeks.
Elon Musk's deal to buy Twitter is in peril --The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/07/07/elon-musk-twitter-jeopardy/
Twitter has an API 'firehose' function that can acquire and refer to all tweets in real time, and it is said that Mr. Musk is providing information , but what kind of data is provided? Is not clear. Mr. Musk doubted the data provided and concluded that 'the number of spam accounts cannot be verified.'
A person familiar with the matter told The Washington Post that Mr. Musk's camp would soon make a 'change of policy.' However, it is unclear what the conversion is, as it has been avoided to say clearly.
On the other hand, Mr. Musk has agreed to the deal with the content that 'unless there is a big problem with Twitter's business, the transaction will be completed', so it is pointed out that it can not be easily withdrawn. .. Whether or not this 'spam account' that Mr. Musk points out corresponds to a 'major problem' seems to be a point that legal experts are a little angry, and if Mr. Musk withdraws, it will not be hurt. First of all, there is a view that you have to pay a fee of 1 billion dollars (about 136 billion yen).
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