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Asharq Al-Awsat
Asharq Al-Awsat
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Asharq Al-Awsat

Twitter Says It Removes over 1 Million Spam Accounts Each Day

An employee walks past a Twitter logo made from California license plates at the company's headquarters in San Francisco, California October 4, 2013. (Reuters)

Twitter removes over 1 million spam accounts each day, executives told reporters in a briefing on Thursday, as it reinforced its efforts to battle automated bots.

The briefing comes as billionaire Elon Musk has threatened to halt a deal to purchase Twitter unless the company showed proof that spam bots accounted for less than 5% of total users on the social media service.

On a conference call, the company reiterated that spam accounts were well under 5%.

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