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How does something large scale like this happen? Is it possible to get an account suspended solely by mass reporting of Tweets, or does it require some level of
by rococode 7y ago
How does something large scale like this happen? Is it possible to get an account suspended solely by mass reporting of Tweets, or does it require some level of internal access to Twitter?
The former would just mean Twitter needs to tweak their suspension procedures a bit. The latter would be quite worrisome due to the various implications (security breach, internal oversight and approval, rogue employee, etc.).
- octosphere 7y agoMost of the accounts were probably registered normally with en email address and a handle, only until Twitter presented the accounts with a 'Please verify the account with a phone number', and then they got flagged and banned. There used to be a loophole in Twitter where you could register accounts en masse (without phone verification), but they have since clamped down on this and now you have to go through rigorous verification steps to prove you're not some bot or trying to run a propaganda campaign.
- locknumber110 7y agoBut if one is some running bots for a propaganda campaign that's friendly to Twitter investors' interests, one magically doesn't run into those sorts of verification hoops.