Anupam Kher has a question for Elon Musk after losing 9 Lakh followers in last two weeks on XActor Anupam Kher expressed surprise after losing approximately 9 lakh followers on X within two weeks. This platform-wide cleanup, aimed a...
04 Dec, 2025, 10.53 AM IST
Twitter to purge inactive accounts, Musk warns follower count could dropAccording to its user guidelines, Twitter considers an account to be active if it was logged into at least once in 30 days.
08 May, 2023, 11.14 PM IST
Twitter bots promoting escorts and gambling drowned out protests in ChinaTwitter and its new owner, Elon Musk, have recently vowed to crack down on bots. But the flood of spam for Chinese users in recent weeks ha...
26 Dec, 2022, 05.04 PM IST
90% of comments on my Twitter account are bots: Elon MuskElon Musk has terminated the $44 billion Twitter takeover deal, and the matter is now in a US court, over the presence of bots on the platf...
06 Sep, 2022, 11.03 AM IST
Twitter reshuffles 'health' team amid spam bot debateThe social media company will combine its health experience team, which works on reducing misinformation and harmful content, with the Twit...
24 Aug, 2022, 09.50 AM IST
Twitter says it removes over 1 million spam accounts each dayOn a conference call, the company reiterated that spam accounts were well under 5% of users who are served advertising, a figure that has b...
07 Jul, 2022, 11.01 PM IST
Elon Musk versus Parag Agrawal battle continues on Twitter spam account issueAgrawal says he shared an overview of he estimation process and looks forward to continuing the conversation with Musk.
17 May, 2022, 02.43 PM IST
Elon Musk says 'still committed', hours after putting Twitter deal on holdElon Musk on Friday said the deal to take over Twitter is 'on hold' till there's clarity on whether spam and fake accounts represent less t...
14 May, 2022, 10.05 AM IST
What are these spam bots that Elon Musk has vowed to defeat or die trying?Elon Musk, who has made weeding out fake Twitter accounts and spam bots the central theme of his takeover plan, said if he buys the social-...
14 May, 2022, 09.24 AM IST
Elon Musk declares war on spam bots, says he will ‘defeat’ them or ‘die trying’ if his Twitter bid is successfulBesides eliminating bots, Musk highlighted the need to authenticate real humans.
22 Apr, 2022, 11.35 AM IST
8% of Instagram accounts are fakes and 30% are inactive: StudyThe researchers discovered that 29.9 per cent of users appear to be inactive - posting one or fewer photos or videos in a month.
03 Jul, 2015, 12.52 PM IST
- 5-6 pc of spam e-mails originate from India
According to international reports, the total email traffic worldwide categorised as spam is about 75-80 per cent, in the year 2011.
07 Dec, 2011, 07.22 PM IST
- Cyber criminals scout for ‘botnets’ to spread virus
The country’s cyber criminals are increasingly looking at creating botnets, network of computers aimed at attacking and ‘capturing’ PCs, to...
15 Oct, 2010, 01.11 AM IST
- Cybercriminals in India creating botnets to capture PCs
Cybercriminals in India are increasingly looking at creating botnets, network of computers aimed at attacking and 'capturing' PCs to spread...
14 Oct, 2010, 02.54 PM IST
- India is no. 3 haven for hackers
Symantec’s threat report says india follows US, Brazil in terms of origin of malware.
26 Apr, 2010, 05.45 AM IST
- Microsoft uses law to cripple hacker spam network
Microsoft said it combined technology with an "extraordinary" legal maneuver to cripple a massive network of hacked computers. Fortify your...
26 Feb, 2010, 04.00 AM IST
- To beat a spammer, bank on his own methods!
Spam messages are an incredible nuisance to most web users. But, now scientists claim to have developed an “effectively perfect” method for...
27 Jan, 2010, 11.43 AM IST