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It’s increasingly up to individuals to do their own analysis before sharing a social media post. Twitter and Facebook have promised to enforce community standards more consistently, but this hasn’t translated into action. It’s still news when any of the social media sites flag a post or a video as inaccurate or even remove it. Facebook removed 1.7 billion fake accounts in the first quarter of this year, up from 1.1 billion at the end of 2019. Twitter challenges millions of accounts every week to look for bots. In late 2019, YouTube removed 3 million videos and nearly 2 million channels for breaking spamming rules, the company said. This Twitter account was started very recently (August 2020) which may be part of the reason it was flagged as a bot. A browser extension from BotSight labels tweets based on an analysis of the account’s activity and behavior. Use advice from DARPA or the CRAAP test to tell the difference between accurate information and suspicious posts.

Natalie Neysa Alund covers trending news for USA TODAY.Think before you share: Four tips and three tools for spotting a bot on social media Musk's Twitter bio Saturday read 'Twitter Complaint Hotline Operator' and his location as 'Hell.' 'Trash me all day, but it’ll cost $8,' Musk tweeted Friday. Twitter users should expect big changes to the site as Musk, who is also the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, seeks to boost revenue.

BOT SENTINEL APP UPDATE

In addition, the company said its iconic verification system is set to turn into a subscription service: An update to Twitter's iOS app mentions a Twitter Blue $7.99 offering that includes the blue checkmark and will soon have 'half the ads & much better ones,' as well as the ability to post longer videos.Īn Android update is in the works, Musk said Saturday, replying to users on Twitter. He also said it would be a 'couple months' until current verified users with blue checkmarks lost their verification status.

Since then, he has laid off about half of Twitter's staff and has acknowledged advertisers are fleeing the platform. 27, he purchased the social media platform after months of fits and starts and legal wrangling. In April, the world's richest man offered to buy the social media company. Musk said in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission at the time: “Twitter needs to be transformed as a private company. “We believe the uptick in deactivations is a result of people upset with Elon Musk purchasing Twitter and deciding to deactivate their accounts in protest,” Bouzy told the outlet. In the week before Musk bought Twitter, 5,958 accounts were deactivated or suspended, suggesting a more than 200% increase in account losses in the days after the purchase. What's next for the social media giant?įrat parties suspended at Cornell: Cornell halts frat parties after reports of nearly a half dozen people being drugged, sexually assaulted 'The bird is freed': Elon Musk now owns Twitter. In addition, 6,824 accounts had been suspended, which happens when Twitter removes accounts for reasons including inactivity, inauthenticity or a violation of site rules, the outlet reported. 1, MIT Technology Review reported, Bot Sentinel found 11,535 accounts they were monitoring had been deactivated (someone shut down their own account). He then replied to his own tweet saying, 'I just hope the servers don't melt!'įrom Oct. Musk could not immediately be reached by USA TODAY.īut on Monday night he tweeted, 'Twitter usage is at an all-time high lol.' He went onto say he and Bot Sentinel calculated the numbers by looking at the proportion of users they analyze who had deactivated their accounts or been suspended after Musk took over, and then applying that percentage to Twitter’s overall user base, which stands at about 237 million “monetizable daily active users”. “We have observed an uptick in people deactivating their accounts and also Twitter suspending accounts,' Christopher Bouzy, Bot Sentinel’s founder told the outlet. That’s more than double the usual number, the outlet is reporting. MIT Technology Review reported the firm Bot Sentinel, which tracks behavior on Twitter by analyzing more than 3.1 million accounts and their daily activity, “believes that around 877,000 accounts were deactivated and a further 497,000 were suspended between Oct. In the week after Elon Musk purchased Twitter for $44 billion, the social media platform lost more than 1.3 million users. Watch Video: Elon Musk hints Twitter verification may cost $8 per month

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