Twitter will no longer count users with restricted accounts

The social network Twitter announced on Wednesday that the company will stop counting as accounts accounts that are frozen or restricted, so some profiles could

Frozen accounts are those whose activity is restricted because their behavior was suspicious and that Twitter has asked its owner to validate its authenticity and reset its pbadwords.

nothing to do, as the company warns in a press release, with those being blocked or eliminated because of spam or created by "bots" (programs that create profiles and have the ability to do so). interact as they were real users). , which will begin to be set up this Thursday, is being taken in order to make the conversation in the network of "microblogging" & # 39; as reliable and truthful as possible and as the number of followers, which are used as a reference of relevance, are more accurate and reliable, adds the company.

Twitter calculates that 6% of its total accounts are frozen. It is expected that the majority of users will lose on average about 4 subscribers or less.

Accounts with the largest number of subscribers will likely have a larger reduction. The blocked accounts will not be deleted, so the owner can reactivate it.

The company wants to withdraw this initiative from its campaign against spam and the malicious "bots" (programs) it has recently initiated and with the only in May this year has identified 9.9 millions of fraudulent accounts.

In the first quarter of this year, Twitter also suspended more than 142,000 requests that violate its rules in this area and have been responsible for more than 130 million of poor quality tweets or spam.

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