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Alsam Friday morning extent of profile deletion days on Twitter was visible, platform itself Dawar Biggest Loser. At least symbolic: Dereigene account, last 62.9 million user had followed, had suddenly 7.8 million followers less. At top of profile Warnoch a two-day old tweet was pinned in which current action of social media company had been announced: because you verpflichtetfühle to build trust and stimulate “healthy conversations” on Twitter, you will Now delete frozen accounts successively. On Thursday it started – particular people with great Twitter followers were allowed to notice such was smaller.
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Some days ago, The Washington Post had revealed what was announcing on Twitter. DerKurznachrichtendienst had confirmed content of Post article: DiePlattform has frozen a total of 70Millionen suspicious profiles over months of May and June. For a long time, Twitter, which, according to its own data, had 336 million monthly users, has been struggling with accounts that have been malgehackt at some point or behind which automated bot armies, spam slings or simply invented persons are stuck.
Now trolls are weggetrollt
TWITTERSPERRT, although routinely accounts, whose owners have violated dieCommunity standards, or where service determines a deutlicheVeränderung of activities, because it allows for abusive Nutzungschließen. However, delete action is now first real Großreinemachenauf of platform, which may have been forced to do so due to persistent schlechterPublicity. Twitter was similar to Facebook Einsozialmedialer main channel of influencing campaigns, which during DesUS presidential campaign 2016, for example, went out of denTroll armies of Russian company Internet research Agency and which apparently candidacy Donald trumps should use. DerSonderermittler Robert Mueller charged several Russians in case in February.
Friday, Donald Trump’s Twitter profile suddenly had less followers. © screenshot Zon
One of surprising findings of extinguishing action is that incumbent US president and Tweeter Inchief loses comparatively few followers. Only 300,000 of Zuletzt53, 4 million have vanished at Trump since Thursday – although yet again has been speculated that Trump’s reach is at Twittererheblich from automated cheer trolls. His predecessor, Barack Obama, on or hand, almost twice as many (supposedly) people on Twitterfolgen, has three million followers in one stroke less.
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Daergeht’s Obama is similar to rar unpolitical pop musicians who jeweilsdie world’s largest Twitter followers and now also have fewer followers: Katy Perry and Justin Bieber each three MillionenFollower, Lady Gaga 2.5 million, Rihanna 2.2 million, Justin Timberlake 1, 8Millionen. As high as absolute numbers, however, dierelativen losses appear to followers. They are usually only between about two and five percentage points of previous Twitter crowd.
