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
India forced Twitter to keep agent with data access: whistleblowerTwitter said that the allegations made were “riddled with inconsistencies and inaccuracies and lacks important context”.
24 Aug, 2022, 12.28 PM 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 users have 'spoken' on fake accounts: Elon MuskElon Musk, who is fighting a bitter legal battle with Twitter over the cancellation of the $44 billion takeover deal, last week began a Twi...
08 Aug, 2022, 10.19 AM IST
Twitter, Elon Musk lock horns in Delaware court over bid for fast-track trialTwitter is seeking to resolve months of uncertainty for its business as Elon Musk tries to walk away from the deal over what he says are Tw...
19 Jul, 2022, 09.40 PM 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 pledges more equity to fund Twitter deal, scraps margin loanThe disclosure made in a regulatory filing on Wednesday signaled Musk is working to complete the deal even though he had last week linked i...
26 May, 2022, 08.32 AM IST
Elon Musk can't easily give Twitter the boot over botsEven if Twitter's estimate is off, a plaintiff would have to show that the San Francisco-based company was seeking to willfully mislead inv...
19 May, 2022, 08.12 AM IST
Elon Musk can't easily give Twitter the boot over botsMusk tweeted on Tuesday that his $44 billion deal to acquire Twitter could not proceed until the company shows proof to back its estimate t...
18 May, 2022, 05.18 PM IST
Elon Musk says Twitter has to show spam accounts less than 5% for deal to move forwardEarlier, Musk suggested that he could seek a lower price for Twitter Inc, saying that there could be at least four times more fake accounts...
17 May, 2022, 04.09 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 $44-billion Twitter deal on hold"Twitter deal temporarily on hold pending details supporting calculation that spam/fake accounts do indeed represent less than 5% of users,...
14 May, 2022, 12.48 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
'Vast carelessness': Twitter isn't happy with Elon Musk putting temporary hold on $44 bn buyout dealMusk has been very vocal about his desire to clean up Twitter's problem with "spam bots".
13 May, 2022, 06.57 PM IST
Twitter users find several accounts suspended for unknown reasonsTwitter users woke up to find several accounts suspended for unknown reasons, triggering conspiracy theories that only the accounts of righ...
02 Nov, 2014, 11.29 AM IST
- Spam attack hits Twitter, tied to Gawker breach
Twitter said Monday that hackers broke into an unspecified number of accounts and sent spam promoting acai berry drinks.
14 Dec, 2010, 06.55 AM IST