Author: RICHARD HARRIS / Source: New York Times
On Thursday, Twitter began slashing tens of millions of suspicious accounts from users’ followers, after mounting skepticism from advertisers and users about the accuracy of the company’s most visible measure of popularity.
The Twitter “purge” — as it has come to be known — took aim at a pervasive form of social media fraud.
Many users have inflated their followers on Twitter or other services with automated or fake accounts, buying the appearance of social influence to bolster their political activism, business endeavors or entertainment careers.The New York Times tracked…
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