Twitter insists it has bots handled, claims it blocks 1 million spammers every day
by Mitchell Clark from The Verge - All Posts on (#6166N)
Illustration by Michele Doying / The Verge Twitter told reporters on Thursday that it kicks over 1 million spam accounts off of its platform a day, according to a report from Reuters. That's double the number CEO Parag Agrawal stated in a May Twitter thread, though the company maintains its long-held position that bots make up less than 5 percent of its active user base. The number of spam accounts and how Twitter deals with them has become a sticking point in recent months, as Elon Musk threatened to back away from his buyout of the company citing concerns the company is downplaying the scale of the problem.
In May, Agrawal tweeted about spam to discuss the situation with the benefit of data, facts, and context." In the thread, he said the platform suspends over half a million...