Twitter locked their code repos. Maybe someone also went in and reviewed the config on their stats package and corrected improper settings.
Twitter locked their code repos. Maybe someone also went in and reviewed the config on their stats package and corrected improper settings.
What's odd about this is that a lot of left-leaning accounts are losing tens of thousands of followers in very short periods of time, but right-leaning accounts are gaining tens of thousands of followers in the same short periods of time. For example, Trump Jr. showed a screenshot of his engagement page where he'd consistently get 4k new followers/day, then suddenly he got 85k the other day. Lots of similar reports from both sides.
It seems like the bot network shutdown is a "hide the evidence" thing from Twitter employees, but maybe they're repurposing them to make 'the other side look bad'. That or they released some valves on restricted accounts or undid some follower fuzzing or something