Twitter removes more than 1 million spam accounts every day

Twitter removes more than 1 million spam accounts every day, executives said at a press conference on Thursday.

The briefing comes after billionaire Elon Musk threatened to pull out of a US$44 billion deal to buy Twitter unless the company provided more information about the number of bot accounts.

Human reviewers manually examine thousands of random Twitter accounts and use a combination of public and private data to determine the proportion of spam and bot accounts on the service.

Twitter stated on its first-quarter earnings call that automated spam accounts account for less than 5% of its daily active users.

Musk has threatened to leave Twitter if the company does not reduce the percentage.

Twitter stated that it examines “thousands of accounts” at random, utilising both public and private data such as IP addresses, phone numbers, and geolocation.