Tuesday, 28 August 2018

Twitter suspends more accounts for “engaging in coordinated manipulation”

Twitter suspends more accounts for “engaging in coordinated manipulation”

Following last week’s suspension of 284 accounts for “engaging in coordinated manipulation,” Twitter announced today that it’s kicked an additional 486 accounts off the platform for the same reason, bringing the total to 770 accounts. While many of the accounts removed last week appeared to originate from Iran, Twitter said this time that about 100 of the latest batch to be suspended claimed to be in the United States. Many of these were less than a year old and shared “divisive commentary.” These 100 accounts tweeted a total of 867 times and had 1,268 followers between them.
Read more: https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/27/twitter-suspends-more-accounts-for-engaging-in-coordinated-manipulation/?source=Snapzu

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