Thread: Quantifying the impact of the Twitter fake accounts purge - a technical analysis

Quantifying the impact of the Twitter fake accounts purge - a technical analysis (elie.net)

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Battling fake accounts, Twitter to slash millions of followers (nytimes.com)

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The Knight Foundation commissioned a study to analyze bot accounts that spread fake news on Twitter. This is what they found. (knightfoundation.org)

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Twitter Bans #Resistance-Famous Krassenstein Brothers for Allegedly Operating Fake Accounts (thedailybeast.com)

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Quantifying the Impact of "Cloudbleed" (blog.cloudflare.com)

L 7 pts 0 comments by Dawny33 Mar 5, 2017 security Security / Privacy thread

a bot for mirroring Twitter accounts on Mastodon (github.com)

L 19 pts 19 comments by Yogthos Mar 13, 2018 programmingshowweb Web Development Programming (General) thread

my version of the bot lives here https://mastodon.social/@newsbot

Twitter is suspending more than one million accounts per day in latest purge (gizmodo.com)

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Disinformation, ‘fake news’ and influence campaigns on Twitter (knightfoundation.org)

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Twitter makes datasets available containing accounts, tweets, and media from accounts associated with influence campaigns from the IRA and Iran (blog.twitter.com)

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High-quality Twitter accounts with good signal vs. noise ratio (sizovs.net)

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Twitter announces that the plan to delete inactive accounts is now on hold, but was primarily aimed at EU accounts due to GDPR (twitter.com)

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Part 1 of an investigation into a network of fake Facebook accounts with AI-generated profile photos, being used to promote TheBL.com (analysis.leadstories.com)

~ 17 pts 3 comments by unknown Dec 18, 2019 ~tech AI / Machine Learning Internet / Digital Culture thread

How Twitter's default settings enabled a security researcher to discover phone numbers for over seventeen million accounts (eff.org)

~ 10 pts 1 comments by unknown Feb 6, 2020 ~tech Security / Privacy Internet / Digital Culture thread

Twitter is suspending 70 pro-Bloomberg accounts, citing ‘platform manipulation’ (latimes.com)

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Signs You’re Following A Fake Twitter Account (nixintel.info)

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Apple, Elon Musk, Kanye West, and other accounts are tweeting a bitcoin scam in giant Twitter hack (theverge.com)

~ 49 pts 29 comments by unknown Jul 15, 2020 ~tech Crypto / Blockchain Apple / macOS / iOS Internet / Digital Culture thread

Hackers Convinced Twitter Employee to Help Them Hijack Accounts (vice.com)

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More than 1,000 people at Twitter had ability to aid hack of accounts (reuters.com)

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Seventeen-year-old in Tampa, Florida arrested and accused of "masterminding" the compromises of prominent Twitter accounts on July 15, charged with thirty felonies (theverge.com)

~ 34 pts 12 comments by unknown Jul 31, 2020 ~tech Internet / Digital Culture thread

Fake accounts fueled the ‘Snyder Cut’ online army (rollingstone.com)

~ 12 pts 2 comments by unknown Jul 19, 2022 ~movies Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Solving the "Fake Twitter Profile" Problem using DNS (easydns.com)

L 9 pts 16 comments by StuntPope Aug 5, 2022 security Security / Privacy thread

Russian Twitter Campaigns During the 2016 Presidential Race Didn’t Change Voting Behavior (scitechdaily.com)

SCI 0 pts 2 comments by New York University Jan 9, 2023 ScienceNew York UniversityPoliticsSocial NetworkingTwitter Science / Math / Physics thread

Exposure to Russian Twitter campaigns in 2016 presidential race was highly concentrated, largely limited to strongly partisan Republicans. New study shows online push by foreign disinformation accounts didn’t change attitudes or voting behavior—but disinformation effort may still have had consequenc...

HBO bosses used ‘secret’ fake accounts to troll TV critics (rollingstone.com)

~ 25 pts 8 comments by unknown Nov 1, 2023 ~tv Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau takes action against Fifth Third Bank for wrongfully triggering auto repossessions and opening fake bank accounts (consumerfinance.gov)

~ 20 pts 0 comments by unknown Jul 10, 2024 ~finance Productivity / Career / Business thread

Quantifying the AVX-512 Performance Impact with AMD Zen 5

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Quantifying the AVX-512 Performance Impact with AMD Zen 5 (phoronix.com)

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Photos of European influencers used for pro-Trump propaganda on fake X accounts (cnn.com)

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Brazil judge's order to secretly block multiple Twitter accounts within 2 hours (twitter.com)

HN 4 pts 1 comments by ripjaygn Sep 1, 2024 Internet / Digital Culture thread

Elon Musk Is Now Seizing Other People's Twitter Accounts to Promote Donald Trump (techdirt.com)

HN 13 pts 3 comments by hn_acker Oct 9, 2024 Internet / Digital Culture thread

Science of Mitophagy: Quantifying Urolithin A's Impact on Mitochondria Function (gethealthspan.com)

HN 2 pts 1 comments by dtawfik1 Nov 17, 2024 thread