They are getting rid of accounts that are or have the potential to harm the network. And perhaps, you fall into the trap of buying Twitter followers. Once you pay for the followers, they start to follow your account, but they are rapidly gone after just a few days! And once Twitter detects that those are accounts were created just to follow, guess what happens? Just a silly reply or fav on a Tweet taking a side of a controversial topic could make you lose followers massively.
Also, promoting yourself when the network is on the attention of another sensitive event could be detrimental for your account. As we mentioned before, Twitter is working hard to fight against accounts that can be harming the network. They not only apply brute force to deactivate accounts, but they also have a collection of settings to silence accounts. Having a valid phone number associated with your Twitter account is crucial to keep your account safe.
That Twitter message is disturbing and suggests your account could be involved in some violation of Twitter policies. You are cleaning your timeline and leaving just the relevant accounts that add value to your life. But, BOOM! Some of you who follow me at ThoughtReach have huge numbers of your own followers, so you should pay attention.
You get a curious tweet directed at you from one of your followers. The Twitter scam bait: "Hey, this person is writing offensive posts that are about you". Now to be fair, for all I know, this guy's Twitter account could have been hacked and was used to try to hack into mine, so if that's the case, sorry.
Don't go off yelling at me in the comment section below. Anyway, if you were to click on the shortlink in that tweet, you'd be forwarded to this webpage:. Take a look at the URL. If you can't read it, it says "tvivtter. But, take a close look at the URL. It looks like it says twitter. We're not in Kansas anymore, Toto. Had I entered my login credentials to Twitter on this webpage, which is owned by the scammer, he would have acquired my Twitter login and shortly thereafter, my followers would be wondering why I was tweeting them ads for " Ronco Spray-paint-the-bald-away ".
So just watch out. As a business owner, you may not have time to watch for every security loophole, but you really don't have time to clean up this smashed-Hostess-Twinkie-of-a-mess.
Nate Goodman ThoughtReach is an email software designer with over 11 years in the email marketing, social media, and CRM space. Nate is known for two things: sipping Fair Trade coffee all day long and not being able to keep a straight face after playing a practical joke on his co-workers. Nate authors the Thought Reach blog about email and social media topics.
He has a passion for making the techno-babble of live video and social media marketing easy to understand. Ian is co-founder of Select Performers — a family run web agency. As well as being a geek, husband, and dad to two kids, Ian is also a professional singer and lives near Manchester in the UK. Find out more. This would have been a meaningful post but the careless branding branding of an entire nation as scammers reveals malicious intent.
Does it? Hi Philip, Thanks for your comment. You make a very good point. But certainly only a small proportion of spam will have originated from Nigeria from my understanding. Sorry for any offence caused. Hope all is well in Nigeria!
On Twitter, the company's chief financial officer Ned Segal clarified on Monday that most accounts Twitter reviews are not included in its user metrics, as they "have not been active on the platform for 30 days or more, or we catch them at sign up and they are never counted". Twitter said removing locked accounts from followers would not impact monthly active users, as locked accounts that have not reset their password for more than one month are excluded from these figures.
During an earnings call in April however, Mr Segal said initiatives cracking down on bad actors might impact its active subscriber numbers. Ultimately, Twitter users who see their followers drop will have the cold comfort of knowing those accounts that remain are now more likely to be flesh and blood.
We acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the First Australians and Traditional Custodians of the lands where we live, learn, and work. The Trump effect Follower counts have become a proxy for status, so users may be less than thrilled by changes made to a competitive metric. The locked account purge Unlike a bot, locked accounts may have once been run by a real person.
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