You may not be aware, but Twitter's share price took a rather large hit yesterday specifically because they banned 10s of millions of bot accounts. They have n

You may not be aware, but Twitter's share price took a rather large hit yesterday specifically because they banned 10s of millions of bot accounts. They have no issues letting the public know how many accounts they are removing. Having said that, their developer ToS are quite clear that they don't want researchers or developers to: > aggregate Twitter user metrics such as total number of active users, accounts, total number of Periscope Broadcast views, user engagements or account engagements.