Twitter is cleaning house and according to a report in The Washington Post this has resulted in the suspension of 70 million accounts in the past couple of months. It’s part of the social network’s plan to lessen the flow of disinformation as well as the malicious activity that has been plaguing Twitter. This rate of suspension is reportedly twice that of the company’s October 2017 suspension rate. This change could result in the decline in users for the second quarter of the year. But a Twitter executive told publication that a lot of these accounts rarely tweeted so the move won’t dramatically affect Twitter’s active user count.
Twitter, alongside Facebook, have been heavily criticized and demanded by users and the general public to put a stop to the trolls, spam, and spread of disinformation on its platform. Last month, Twitter said in a blog post that it’s been improving its safety policies and its “systems identified and challenged more than 9.9 million potentially spammy or automated accounts per week.”