Elon Musk is currently teasing Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey about the company’s spam combating and calculation strategy.
Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal wrote a long thread today explaining how the company counts false and spam accounts. Musk replied with a happy feces emoji to one of the tweets.
The decision comes as Elon Musk and Twitter are at odds about how the firm counts spam and phony accounts on the network. According to Twitter, less than 5% of its monetizable daily active users are fraudulent. However, Musk decided to put his takeover attempt on hold last week, citing fears that Twitter was underestimating the situation.
Elon Musk’s approach is to randomly sample 100 people on the network, which he claims is the same process used by Twitter. However, in a long Twitter thread detailing how Twitter calculates phony and spam accounts on Monday, Agrawal attempted to counter the undercounting concerns.
“Every single day, we are tremendously motivated to discover and eliminate as much spam as possible.” “Anyone who claims otherwise is simply incorrect,” Twitter’s CEO stated. Twitter’s detection mechanisms, according to Agrawal, suspend nearly half a million spam accounts per day. “We also lock millions of accounts a week that we think are spam because they can’t pass human verification requirements,” the CEO said.
Twitter then conducts human-led checks on thousands of accounts selected at random in order to calculate the spam/fake account problem. The human-led evaluations, on the other hand, are limited to monetizable daily active users, defined by Twitter as “people, organizations, or other accounts who signed in or were otherwise authenticated and used Twitter on any given day.”
“Each human review is based on Twitter rules that define spam and platform manipulation, and uses both public and private data to reach a judgment on each account,” Agrawal said.
