“We understand this may be hard for some, but we believe accuracy and transparency make Twitter a more trusted service for public conversation,” adds Gadde.

Twitter is also warning that while “the most significant changes” will happen in the next few days, users’ follower counts “may continue to change more regularly as part of our ongoing work to proactively identify and challenge problematic accounts”.

Matthew Green@matthew_d_green



When I first heard of Twitter my question was “how did they solve the impossible spam problem that’s going to plague any global chat network without real user identities”. I’ve come to realize: they didn’t.

Twitter also specifies that locked accounts that have not reset their password in more than one month were already not included in Twitter’s MAU or DAU counts — so it today reiterates the CFO’s recent message, saying this change won’t affect its own platform usage metrics. 

The company has been going through what — this time — looks to be a serious house-cleaning process for some months now, after years and years of criticism for failing to effectively tackle rampant spam and abuse on its platform.

In March, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey also put out a call for ideas to help it capture, measure and evaluate healthy interactions on its platform and the health of public conversations generally — saying: “Ultimately we want to have a measurement of how it affects the broader society and public health, but also individual health, as well.”

For more on this story go to: https://techcrunch.com/2018/07/11/hold-for-the-drop-twitter-to-purge-locked-accounts-from-follower-metrics/