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Battling Fake Accounts, Twitter to Slash Millions of Followers
- Thread starter Vanillalite
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Tie it to something verifiable. One person, one account, verified identity. No bots, no spammers.
You know people are madly screen capturing Twitter follower numbers right now to show how much a drop for certain people
They won't touch his - it would cause too much of a shit storm.
I would have said that a year or 2 ago. But I wouldn't be shocked if the number is closer to 60 percent
Was pretty funny to see people complain that bot accounts following them got canned.
Also I've been wondering, is there a limit to how many people I can put on my twitter block list?
Also I've been wondering, is there a limit to how many people I can put on my twitter block list?
I've made a couple of trash accounts for testing things/website signing up and Trump has always been in the "Click here to automatically follow 20 people" section along with a bunch of sport stars.
Good. Some of these dumbasses with the verified check and inflated follower numbers given "legitimacy"
Same, I'll believe it when I fucking see it. Both them and Facebook have unveriably changed the course of history for the worse with thier lax approach in curbing fake accounts or manipulative foreign entities from politically swaying their users, so they'll earn no accolades from me for getting around to this so late. And unless they institute real preventative measures against these bot accounts, we're going to end up in the same fucking place by next year. Russia should also be blanket banned from twitter.
This isn't a meaningful change.
They're only removing follower counts for locked accounts. There are millions of bots that are freely posting BTC scams and QAnon garbage.
Most of Twitter's active users and impressions are bots. If they actually got rid of bots, their shares would crater. This is a PR move.
They're only removing follower counts for locked accounts. There are millions of bots that are freely posting BTC scams and QAnon garbage.
Most of Twitter's active users and impressions are bots. If they actually got rid of bots, their shares would crater. This is a PR move.
This, verifying identity might also give something to dangle over accounts that turn out to be alt-right (would be terrible if their employers would learn about it :-) )
It's always so funny to see the loudmouth "inflencer" accounts get up in arms when they drop 10k followers in a day.
My block list is at half a million. It's mostly right wing bots, but I've also blocked most alt right figureheads and ancillary shitheads like Sarah Palin and Ted Nugent.
Sadly this, crazy thing is they pretty much putting off the inevitable, have they turned a profit yet?
Holy moly. Thanks for answering, I mostly block random people who I'm fairly sure are just going to put negativity on my timeline if I ever see them again, pretty sure half a million is more than enough.
I came here To this thread to enjoy some of that. Anyone got any examples?
Interestingly, it doesn't sound like they're purging the accounts outright. Maybe they're gonna filter them from there to avoid false positives?
It was so much easier during the height of gamergate. There was an app you could use that would identify users that followed all of the main figureheads of gamergate and autoblock them (it wouldn't do anything to people just following one or two of the GG accounts).
The bonus effect of this was that it also conveniently blocked most of the russian bots that got repurposed to push trump during 2016.
With 500,000 blocked (I used scripts and CSV files, did NOT do it by hand lol) I don't see any "CNN = fake news" bullshit anymore, but new bots pop up every day, so it almost feels futile to try to block them all.
I think blocking the alt right people (Jack, Mike, Paul, Candace, you know which ones I'm talking about) is the best way to clean up your feed.
Lmao, you blocked him?Let's see
Here's his before cleanup count.
How do you wind up with half a million people you don't want following you???
I don't even have 100 people following me on Twitter, lol.
(Or do you mean just blocking things you don't want to see period....following you or not)
Both.
Blocking someone on twitter makes it slightly less convenient for them to see your tweets (they still can) and makes it much easier for you not to see theirs.
Both sides of blocking someone are useful.
Blocking people also suppresses them from your feed and search results.
I believe it blocks them from your feed completely, and the algorithm suppresses them from search results, but they still appear if they get a lot of traction (like if they're president or something).
Users who get blocked a lot get shadowbanned by Twitter, and their content gets suppressed to everyone.
Let's see
Here's his before cleanup count.
Why does his personal account have more followers?
Because he writes all the nasty shit on his personal account
these sites need to stop using raw user number as a metric on their site. That the hugest issue they have right now. It should be based on user engagment, conversations etc. Not raw user numbers its the main reason all these bots have proliferated and they are so scared to cull shitty accounts.
How are you blocking so many users, Jesus Christ.
I block maybe 1 user a week, and that's only with diving off my feed.
I RARELY block people but that's because my feed is quite specific and I try to keep an eye on the happenings of all parts of the community.
Anyhow.
Have they started doing this yet?
Anyhow.
Have they started doing this yet?
They began removing them a couple hours ago. The biggest that I've seen:
@Twitter has lost 7.7 million (63 -> 55)
@LadyGaga has lost 2.3 million (79 -> 76)
@TaylorSwift13 has lost 2.3 million (85 -> 83)
@BarackObama has lost 2.1 million (103 -> 101)
@YouTube has lost 2 million (72 -> 70)
@KatyPerry has lost 1.5 million (109 -> 108)
Not sure if there's a better site to track this, but I'm using http://twopcharts.com/Twitter/dailyfollowers per user.
@Twitter has lost 7.7 million (63 -> 55)
@LadyGaga has lost 2.3 million (79 -> 76)
@TaylorSwift13 has lost 2.3 million (85 -> 83)
@BarackObama has lost 2.1 million (103 -> 101)
@YouTube has lost 2 million (72 -> 70)
@KatyPerry has lost 1.5 million (109 -> 108)
Not sure if there's a better site to track this, but I'm using http://twopcharts.com/Twitter/dailyfollowers per user.
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It's so goddamn obvious too.
Don't forget that most times they have #MilitaryMom in their profile, or some other hashtags and words that claim how patriotic and/or religious they are. Whenever I encounter these profiles I ask them to tweet one image of themselves holding a piece of paper with their username.
Have never gotten ONE person to actually confirm they are the generic stock photo in their avatar.
