Twitter has pruned more suspected trolls and fake accounts from its platform, prompting several of its most outspoken conservative users to complain Wednesday that they had lost thousands of followers overnight. Conservatives quickly decried what they called the "#twitterlockout," adding it to their list of … Read More

US President Donald Trump has 47.9 million followers on Twitter. But, by one estimate, almost 18 million—about 38%—are fake. Trump's astounding tally of fraudulent followers has been widely reported. What hasn't been explored is the huge number of bots following the media institutions covering … Read More

Conservative and far-right Twitter users were furious Wednesday about the loss of thousands of followers, with influencers and partisans particularly inflamed by what they perceived to be a targeted action by the social platform, CNET reported. Some users also claimed they were locked out of their … Read More

Some conservative Twitter Inc. users are accusing the company of unfairly targeting their followers as it steps up efforts to get rid of fake or abusive accounts. Prominent conservative pundits and activists said Wednesday that thousands of their followers had been deleted overnight. Other users said they … Read More

"We believe there are a confluence of factors that have catalyzed the growth prospects of both Twitter and Snapchat in the near-term, with some of this momentum clearly happening at the expense of the Facebook platform," wrote GBH's Daniel Ives. The analyst estimates that, after only advertising on … Read More

Call it a purge. A lockout. A censorship campaign. Regardless of the term, conservative and far-right Twitter users are furious about the loss of thousands of followers overnight, with influencers and partisans particularly inflamed by what they perceive to be a targeted attack by the social platform. Twitter … Read More

Twitter is announcing major limits on how users and apps can automate tweets, in order to combat spam and political propaganda bots. Developers are now banned from using any system that simultaneously posts “identical or substantially similar” tweets from multiple accounts at once, or makes actions … Read More

And the strength of Michael B. Jordan's sympathetic performance as the character is also a major factor, as Business Insider's Jason Guerrasio noted in his review of the film. Many fans of the film have thus taken to Twitter after seeing "Black Panther" to voice their agreement with Killmonger's argument … …

Twitter is seeking out and shutting down automated accounts that pretend to be real people as pressure mounts to purge the service of “bots” that artificially inflate follower counts and advertising metrics. Other fake accounts have been traced to Russian-backed agents that the U.S. government says are … Read More

Twitter apparently suspended thousands of accounts overnight yesterday, in what is believed to be a purge of bot profiles with suspected ties to Russian influence. Protests from predominately conservative users sparked the hashtag #TwitterLockOut, who claimed their accounts were being “unfairly … Read More