The challenge to catch fake accounts on Twitter
Posted: Mon Jan 06, 2025 3:45 am
The professional points out that they suspend “more than half a million spam accounts every day” and that they block “millions of accounts every week” that they suspect may be spam. “ The most difficult challenge is that many accounts that look fake on the surface are actually real people ,” he specifies.
“We know there is still some creep in. We measure it malta phone number data internally,” he says, then highlights the percentage of disagreement. “ Our actual internal estimates for the last four quarters were all well below 5% ,” he notes.
" Each human review is based on Twitter's rules that define spam and platform manipulation , and uses public and private data (e.g., IP address, phone number, geolocation, client/browser signatures, what the account does when active, etc.) to make a determination about each account," he explains about the process.
"Unfortunately, we do not believe that this specific estimate can be done externally, given the critical need to use public and private information (which we cannot share)," he notes at the end of the thread.
“There are a lot of details that are very important beneath this high-level description. We shared an overview of the estimation process with Elon a week ago and we look forward to continuing the conversation with him, and with all of you,” he concludes.
“We know there is still some creep in. We measure it malta phone number data internally,” he says, then highlights the percentage of disagreement. “ Our actual internal estimates for the last four quarters were all well below 5% ,” he notes.
" Each human review is based on Twitter's rules that define spam and platform manipulation , and uses public and private data (e.g., IP address, phone number, geolocation, client/browser signatures, what the account does when active, etc.) to make a determination about each account," he explains about the process.
"Unfortunately, we do not believe that this specific estimate can be done externally, given the critical need to use public and private information (which we cannot share)," he notes at the end of the thread.
“There are a lot of details that are very important beneath this high-level description. We shared an overview of the estimation process with Elon a week ago and we look forward to continuing the conversation with him, and with all of you,” he concludes.