Monday, May 16, 2022

Musk: Elon Musk versus Parag Agrawal battle continues on Twitter spam account issue

Mumbai: Twitter CEO Parag Agarwal spoke about spam, bots and platform manipulation in a series of tweets. He shared a blog post from 2020 –
‘Bot or not? Facts about platform manipulation on Twitter.’

Agarwal clarified what exactly these terms are and how the company deals with them. He added that social media platforms are ‘encouraged to detect and remove spam as much as possible.’

In addition, the chief executive also said that Twitter suspends over half a million spam accounts every day even before regular users notice the platform. “If we can’t pass the human verification challenges (captcha, phone verification, etc), we also lock millions of accounts every week, which we suspect may be spam,” said Agarwal. Huh.”

“Our team constantly updates our systems and rules to remove as much spam as possible, without inadvertently suspending real people or adding unnecessary friction to real people when using Twitter: also doesn’t want to solve the captcha every time twitter is used.” said.

Aggarwal further explained, FirstnameBunchOfNumbers may look like a bot or spam with no profile picture and weird tweets, but behind the scenes, several indicators show that it is a real person.

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“Unfortunately, we do not believe this specific inference can be made externally, given the critical need to use both public and private information (which we cannot share). Externally, knowing this Also not possible which accounts count as mDAUs on any given day,” he tweeted, to which Tesla chief Elon Musk responded with an emoticon.

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Musk replied “Have you tried just calling them?” When Agarwal tweeted that the Twitter rules define spam and platform manipulation, and use both public and private data to make a determination on each account.

“Beneath this high level detail are a lot of details that are very important. We shared an overview of the assessment process with Elon a week ago and look forward to continuing conversations with him and all of you,” Agarwal tweeted. Did.

It comes after Musk, who has made fake Twitter accounts and spambots a central theme of his acquisition plan, said he would “beat spam bots or die trying” if it bought the social-media platform. .

Elon Musk also tweeted on Saturday that Twitter Inc’s legal team has accused him of violating a non-disclosure agreement by disclosing that the sample size for the social media platform’s checks on automated users was 100.

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