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Just 15 minutes into the Twitter purge, Trump has already lost 100K followers

sudshr47 July 12, 2018

Oh boy, this is gonna be fun.

At Thursday at 3 p.m ET, Jack Dorsey announced that action on the announced Twitter purge had begun.

Action on this starts today https://t.co/HSfFE9ReLi

— jack (@jack) July 12, 2018

Just fifteen minutes later, the Twitter account of the United States’ Commander in Chief, @reaDonaldTrump, lost at least 100,000 followers.

As of Wednesday evening, Donald Trump had 53.4 million twitter followers.

But at 3:15 ET on Thursday, he had fallen to 53.3 million. Gasp!

And the fall will likely get steeper. When Twitter announced its intention to remove inactive accounts, it said that it would take place over “the next few days.” So it seems like this isn’t happening all at once, and the losses may keep coming. Read more…

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These 2 bots stuck in a loop with each other is Twitter at its finest

sudshr47 June 8, 2018

Somewhere in the never-ending ether of the net, two Twitter bots are having a cheerful, never-ending conversation with each other.

In one corner we have @infinite_scream, a bot created by Nora Reed for the sole purpose of endlessly screaming into the void. If you tweet at the bot, it’ll respond like this:

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH

— endless screaming ⚧ (@infinite_scream) June 8, 2018

The other part of our new favourite bot BFF duo is @tinycarebot, which was created by Jonny Sun to pump out uplifting, emoji-filled messages like this: Read more…

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#TwitterLockout claims hundreds of conservative users are falsely named bots

sudshr47 February 21, 2018

Hundreds, perhaps even thousands, of Twitter users were locked out of their accounts Tuesday night, inspiring the hashtag #TwitterLockout.
The reason is unclear but evidence suggests a bot purge that may have flagged certain accounts inaccurately. Lo…

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Twitter influencers suspect a bot ‘purge’

sudshr47 January 30, 2018

Dan LaMorte lost 500 Twitter followers last weekend. As a comedian, he made a joke of it.

Twitter deleted millions of accounts over night, leading to me losing 500 followers by the time I woke up. At least send me flowers if you’re going to fuck me that hard over night Twitter.

— Dan LaMorte (@DanLaMorte) January 28, 2018

Actress Adina Porter, known for her roles in True Blood and American Horror Story, responded to LaMorte’s tweet with her own experience:

I lost 5-6K since yesterday.

— Adina Porter (@AdinaPorter) January 28, 2018

Coincidence? It’s difficult to tell, but the drop for both users did come shorty after a New York Times investigation named influential figures who had purchased fake Twitter followers, and exposed a service called Devumi which provides them. Read more…

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Celebrities buy fake followers. Twitter: 🤷🤷🤷

sudshr47 January 27, 2018

A president, an actress from Scandal, an American Idol contestant, and a star quarterback were just four of the many influential figures found to have purchased fake Twitter followers, via a New York Times investigation published Saturday.

But while these acts are shady and can influence the results of something — from getting a customer service complaint in front of Volvo to a presidential campaign — they are often overlooked by the platforms themselves.

Twitter says it does invest in fighting bots, as in false or spam accounts. But it doesn’t always suspend users that are purchasing fake engagement to spread their messages or just tout their reach. That policy comes even as the Times found evidence of influential figures using a service called Devumi to purchase followers and shared that information with Twitter. Read more…

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My favorite Twitter account is a bot

sudshr47 December 30, 2017

Human Twitter accounts serve their purpose, but I prefer tweets from bots.

Research suggests there are now some 30 million tweeting bots — though this might be a low estimate. Some of these bots provide weather updates, make stock recommendations, or attempt to subvert democracy.

I, however, like bots that aren’t necessarily so useful nor ambitious. I look forward to their musings because their primary directive is to produce creative or absurd content — and I’m not alone.

“I like anything that’s going to inject a little strangeness, beyond the normal strangeness that we have every day now,” Charles Bergquist, the creator of my favorite twitter bot, NewFound Planets, told Mashable. Bergquist is also the director of the public radio program Science Friday. Read more…

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Tone deaf Sen. McCain asks for more Twitter followers, so he loses thousands

sudshr47 December 4, 2017

After he dealt a devastating blow to our social safety net last week, Senator John McCain is now asking for a handout.

On Monday, the Senator’s Twitter account made a tone-deaf request for more Twitter followers. The account was just short of 3 million followers by “74 persons,” the tweet reported — would people be so kind to “spread the word & help us reach this big milestone!?”

Nope.

We’re only 74 Twitter followers away from 3M – spread the word & help us reach this big milestone!

— John McCain (@SenJohnMcCain) December 4, 2017 Read more…

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Russian bots dropped 45,000 garbage tweets on us during the Brexit referendum

sudshr47 November 15, 2017

Reports of Russian trolls meddling into the U.S. elections are quite widespread, and even subject to a recent congressional investigation.

Less well-known is Russia’s interference in the UK’s referendum on European Union membership in 2016.

But now a paper — still incomplete — by data scientists at Swansea University and the University of California, Berkeley, is digging into the magnitude of Russian Brexit-related tweets — and the provisional results are astonishing.

Russian accounts that normally tweet in Russian and whose main subject was the Ukrainian conflict swiftly switched to English ahead of the June 2016 referendum and dumped a staggering 45,000 tweets in 48 hours with the hashtag “#Brexit,” paper co-author Tho Pham told Mashable. Read more…

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