Twitter suspended 1m accounts a day

The Washington Post has reported Twitter suspended more than one million accounts a day in recent months to reduce the flow of misinformation on the platform. Twitter suspended more than 70 million accounts in May and June 2018. Twitter has only 336 million monthly active users (MAU).

“Due to technology and process improvements during the past year, we (Twitter) are now removing 214 percent more accounts for violating our spam policies on a year-on-year basis,” the company said in a blog posted in June 2018. In May, it identified and challenged more than 9.9 million “potentially spammy” or automated accounts per week, compared with 6.4 million in December 2017.