{"id":196558,"date":"2022-07-08T11:19:26","date_gmt":"2022-07-08T09:19:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/en\/?p=196558"},"modified":"2025-07-01T20:35:38","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T03:35:38","slug":"twitter-targeting-bot-accounts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/twitter-targeting-bot-accounts\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter is working hard to get rid of bot accounts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Ever since Elon Musk thought it would be more fun to buy Twitter than solve world hunger, he has constantly been trying to justify his decision by going on and on about Twitter\u2019s bot account problem. Musk has threatened to pull his $44 billion offer for the social network if Twitter can\u2019t prove that it is actively moving to solve the problem. With so much money on the table it is  not surprising that that is exactly what Twitter has done.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Twitter has briefed reporters that it is removing approximately 1 million spam accounts from the network every day<\/strong>. The network has also reiterated its claims that bot accounts make up less than 5% of users<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Going through the processes of how they remove these accounts, Twitter said<\/a> that human reviewers are manually examining thousands of Twitter accounts at random all the time<\/strong>. They use a combination of publicly available and private data<\/strong> to help them work out the number of bot accounts on the network, in relation to typical human accounts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As to whether this will please Musk is anybody\u2019s guess as nobody is really even sure if he actually wants to buy Twitter anymore. Also, Twitter says that it isn\u2019t really possible for external companies to run audits<\/strong> on the number of bot accounts that exist on the app as it would mean private data would have to be shared.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We suspend over half a million spam accounts every day, usually before any of you even see them on Twitter. We also lock millions of accounts each week that we suspect may be spam \u2013 if they can\u2019t pass human verification challenges (captchas, phone verification, etc).<\/p>— Parag Agrawal (@paraga) May 16, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote>