Twitter Genocide: Check If Your Precious Followers Were Killed Too
New York Times article a number of followers of famous people on Twitter dropped unexpectedly. Twitter started “punishing” those, who used Devumi to get new fake followers.
Read the details on Nexter.org.
Devumi bot service
A special service “Devumi” provides fake Twitter accounts to increase the number of your followers.
The investigation conducted by NYT made Twitter rethink their actions and concentrate power on deleting of fake accounts.
The tactics used by Devumi on our platform and others as described by today’s NYT article violate our policies and are unnacceptable to us. We are working to stop them and any companies like them.
— Twitter Comms (@TwitterComms) January 27, 2018
If you’ve ever purchased bots form Devumi, you would have probably lost thousands of subscribers.
In some cases, Twitter has been deleting fakes with regards to Russian propaganda bots.
Recently, the company also announced 49-year-old Noto would be a chief executive officer and a member of the So-Fi board of directors since March 1. It was considered to be a bad sign for a financially struggling company.
But it seems that Twitter got all the problems handled.
Reaction
Some of the influential celebs make jokes, some are really surprised by this incident:
Twitter deleted millions of accounts over night, leading to me losing 500 followers by the time I woke up. At least send me flowers if you’re going to fuck me that hard over night Twitter.
— Dan LaMorte (@DanLaMorte) January 28, 2018
What the heck? In a matter of minutes, I lost over 10,000 followers. This has to be a glitch?
— Angelo Ray Gomez (@AngeloRayGomez) January 27, 2018
Interestingly, Hannity’s Twitter account lost 300,000 followers overnight. H/t @cocteau pic.twitter.com/0JbRiKtoDc
— Nick Confessore (@nickconfessore) January 28, 2018
I just notice that 5sos lost many followers so they lost their 12M.
Its not normal,it make me so sad..we lost many 5sosfam..so
RT this tweet if you will be there and support 5sos no matter what happens.???? pic.twitter.com/fppzWqLfwA— moon☾ (@paulinesgfg) January 28, 2018
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