Twitter reportedly suspended 70 million accounts across May and June of 2018 as part of its purge of fake users. Now, the social media company had already suspended at least 58 million accounts in the last quarter of 2017.
The purges originated in Twitter’s “firehose” stream, a premium feed that breaks news in real time for subscribers.
In the past, Twitter has assured users that the account suspension was targeted on bots, rather than members that espoused conservative politics. The company went further to say that it was cleaning up its network to push for more genuine interactions between users, not to silence any legitimate voices. We’ve reached out to Twitter for more details on this current matter and will update this post if we hear back.
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Twitter said in April it had 336 million monthly active users, which it defines as accounts that have logged in at least once during the previous 30 days. The suspended accounts do not appear to have made a large dent in this number, which was up 3 per cent from a year earlier. Twitter maintains that most of the suspended accounts had been dormant for at least a month, and thus weren’t included in its active user numbers.
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