Twitter Suspends Over 70 Million User Accounts

Social media site Twitter has suspended more than one million accounts a day in recent months to reduce the flow of misinformation on the platform. 

Reuters reports Twitter and other social media platforms such as Facebook have been under scrutiny by US lawmakers and international regulators for doing too little to prevent the spread of false content.

The companies have been taking steps such as deleting user accounts, introducing updates and actively monitoring content to help users avoid being a victim to fake content.

Wedbush analyst Michael Pachter told Reuters It’s hard to believe that 70 million accounts were affected when Twitter has only 336 million monthly active users 

“My guess is that a large number of these suspended accounts were dormant … it should have little impact on the company. If the 70 million were mostly active accounts, the affected accounts would have been “screaming bloody murder”. 

In a blog post last month, Twitter said Due to technology and process improvements during the past year, they are now removing 214% more accounts for violating our spam policies on a year-on-year basis.