A couple of weeks ago Twitter revealed that they had closed 70 million accounts between May and June. It was the highest amount yet, surpassing one million accounts suspended every day. Although this rhythm has been active for some time. Because since the end of 2017 the social network has been suspending millions of accounts around the world.
Until now there was no specific data, but the number of accounts that Twitter suspended late last year. Which gives us an idea of the magnitude of the problem of false accounts in the social network.
During the last quarter of last year the social network suspended at least 57 million accounts all over the world. This is a huge number, and it was the beginning of this rhythm of high-level suspensions that the company is carrying out today.
Although we see how the rate has increased significantly in these months. Because at present Twitter is suspending approximately one million accounts a dayIf you look at the figures for May and June, they are likely to hold for a while.
All the accounts closed on Twitter belong to trolls, inactive users, bots and accounts like that. A cleaning in a big way by the social network. Although many of its shareholders are not entirely happy, since this means that the number of users decreases. A figure that is considered important when presenting the quarterly results.
It seems like Twitter has already lost 2% of its accounts with this purge they are carrying out. Something that seems that it will not end soon, so we will see the effects that these actions have on the social network in the medium term.