Twitter defends removal of fake accounts after Trump criticism
Twitter is defending its policy of removing fake accounts after President Trump attacked the tech company for removing “many people from my account.”
The social media giant said it was seeking to remove fake accounts so that people would know their followers are actually real people and argued that this was for the better.
“Our focus is on the health of the service, and that includes work to remove fake accounts to prevent malicious behavior," a spokesperson for Twitter said in a statement to The Hill. "Many prominent accounts have seen follower counts drop, but the result is higher confidence that the followers they have are real, engaged people.”
The statement comes after Trump criticized the company, tweeting Friday: “Twitter has removed many people from my account and, more importantly, they have seemingly done something that makes it much harder to join — they have stifled growth to a point where it is obvious to all. A few weeks ago it was a Rocket Ship, now it is a Blimp! Total Bias?”
Link to tweet
https://thehill.com/policy/technology/technology/413318-twitter-defends-removal-of-fake-accounts-after-trump-criticism?userid=229233
So he had a lot of fake followers.
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Those bots weren't cheep, and trump will now have to buy a few thousand more to make up for the "fake" ones that got caught. It ain't easy being and asshole like trump, he needs those "fake" bots to help boost that huge ego of his!