Twitter closes millions of accounts

The blog site Twitter announced the closure of millions of closed and fictitious accounts, which greatly affected the number of subscribers Public figures and the most prominent politicians in the world, the circulation of the number of users of the site An image that they said revealed a major collapse in the number of followers of Tamim bin Hamad, l & # 39; Emir of Qatar, whose number of observers decreased from 2 million to 600 thousand, to 231 thousand followers.

The Most Eminent Victims

One of the most prominent Arab personalities who lost the followers of Dr. Mohammed Arifi, who was removed from the census of Twitter followers to about 303,000 followers, according to the list prepared by CNN Arabic.

The other characters who lost track of Queen Rania, the Queen of Jordan, whose number of followers on Friday was 10,634,000 followed after 10,892,000 followers, and thus lost about 260,000 followers .

Among other accounts that saw a significant drop in the number of followers, the Alwaleed bin Talal account, which cleared 247 thousand accounts of the total number of follow-ups.

The account of Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the UAE Prime Minister and the Ruler of Dubai, was the number of accounts withdrawn from the census followed by 155 thousand accounts.

Among the Saudi accounts, which have seen a drop in the number of followers, the account of Dr. Ayed al-Qarni, which was removed from the census follow-up, has about 190,000 followers.

In Egypt, the report of preacher Amr Khaled has seen a decrease in the number of followers: the number reaches about 132,000 observers and the number of followers followed by the name of Yusuf by 126 thousand followers.

Mohamed ElBaradei's account lost about 107,000 followers on Twitter, while the account of singer Ahlam Ahlam lost about 163,000 subscribers.

The most prominent follow-up on Twitter, US President Donald Trump, whose number of follow-ups until Wednesday was 53,300,000 follow-up, to wipe out about 300,000 followers on Thursday, and the number of follow ups 53 million.

The most affected by this move was former US President Barack Obama, who lost about two million followers, the same figure lost by the introduction of the famous American programs Alain Degeneris.

Why did Twitter take this step?

Twitter said in a press release two days ago, according to Al Arabiya, that the number of subscribers of each Twitter account will certainly decrease, indicating that the number of subscribers is a feature. Visibility is important and always seeks to build trust as indicated by these numbers.

Twitter said in its statement: "For years we have closed many accounts that we have discovered sudden changes in their behavior.In these situations, we communicate with the owners of the account, and they do not set up the account and rebadign their pbadwords, we keep them locked without logging in. This week we will delete these closed accounts from the number of accountants around the world.Therefore, the number of subscribers in a large number of profiles can drop. "
Most people will notice a change in four people or less, while others with a larger number of subscribers will experience a larger drop. [19659006] Twitter said in its statement: "We recognize that this may be difficult for some, but we believe that the accuracy and transparency makes the Twitter service more reliable for the future. a public conversation. "

Twitter also said that even if the most significant changes occur in the coming days, the number of subscribers could continue to change more systematically as part of its ongoing work. Proactive identification and challenge accounts causing problems.

This decision comes after Twitter co-founder and CEO Jacques Dorsey spoke about the company's ongoing efforts to build trust and drive conversations on Twitter, confirming that the number of followers is a very important visual benefit . Improves everyone's confidence because these numbers are significant and significant.

Why is my Twitter account locked?

Twitter also reported that when it detects sudden changes in the behavior of the account, the account can be locked and contacted by its owner to ensure that it is still in control. These sudden changes in the behavior of the Twitter account can include a large number of unwanted responses, signals or Twitter with misleading links, or if a large number of accounts block the account after referring to it. Sometimes a particular account is locked if a group of email addresses and pbadwords of other services is displayed. The company said it believed the information could jeopardize the security of the account. We therefore ask the accounts to change their pbadword so that we can ensure that everything is fine, that the account is blocked. "He said.

How do these accounts differ from annoying behaviors or automated calculations?

In most cases, these accounts are created by real people, but we can not be sure that the original person who created the account is still in control and able to access it.

Automated accounts (sometimes called boring accounts) often show undesirable behavior from the beginning, and are increasingly predictable by our systems, and we can use special techniques to disable them automatically.

Why only followers? Will it extend to tweets, tweets and re-tweets?

The company has also stated that his ongoing efforts to improve the health of Twitter conversations contained all aspects of the services.This specific update focuses on subscribers as it is the most more visible from our service and is often badociated with account reliability. Once the account locked, he can not Twitter, or admire or re-Twitter and ads are not displayed.

Will this change affect monthly active statistics on users or active users per day?

No, closed subscriber accounts will not affect active user statistics by month or day. Active user statistics do not include closed monthly or daily accounts whose pbadword has not been set for more than one month.