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BARRACUDA LABS RESEARCH RESULTS THIS BORDER CONSISTS ENTIRELY OF PROLE PICTURES FROM FAKE TWITTER ACCOUNTS UNDERGROUND ECONOMY twitter FOLLOWERS: of buying DEALERS, ABUSERS AND FAKE ACCOUNTS The Twitter Underground Economy: The Twitter underground economy consists of Dealers who create and sell thousands of fake Twitter accounts, and Abusers who buy these fake accounts and sell advertising based on their now large number of followers MITT ROMNEY has well over 808,000 Twitter followers! (But are they all real accounts?) The number of Mitt Romney's Twitter followers went up... ..n just ONE DAY! July 21, 2012) 20% 90 days old 2596 3 weeks old 80% of these new Twitter follower accounts are less than 3 months old 25% of them are not even 3 weeks old . 80% 90 days old IN 4 OF ROMNEY'S NEW TWITTER ACCOUNTS HAVE NEVER SENT A SINGLE TWEET 10% of these new accounts have already been suspended by Twitter! NOTE: These followers could have been paid for by Romney or his opponents Mitt Romney is just the latest example of the thousands of people on Twitter that pay for followers. To further explore this, we examined a random collection of fake Twitter followers. BARRACUDA LABS ANALYZED... 72,212 FAKE TWITTER ACCOUNTS AND UNCOVERED... 11,283 ABUSERS WHO HAVE AT LEAST 470 FAKE FOLLOWERS tats were collected from separate data souces after 3 punchases of Twitter folliowers fron eBay and other webstes THE ECONOMY: Where does one buy fake Twitter followers? 20 sellers on eBay and 58 websites are currently selling Twitter followers. , within top 100 Gogle search results buy twitter Average price to buy fake followers ヒ per 1,000 followers 1,000 48,885 75%; An average Abuser (a person who buys ake followers) has this many followers of Abusers are advertising a website URL in their profile.. compared to 3 1 % of overall Twitter users. ABOUT FAKE ACCOUNTS (what the Dealers create): Percentage of fake accounts that are less The average age of a fake account: than 3 months old 61% 19. weeks since April 16th, 2012) (or about 5 months) 1,799 An average fake Twitter account is following this many people The oldest fake account we uncovered was created on January 15, 2007 (@krails)

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mcc @mcc@mastodon.social As a reminder, if you still have Twitter account(s) -I recommend you delete them before November 15, at which poin a TOS that gives Twitter permission to scrape your posts for "Al" comes into effect. My read (NOT A LAWYER) Is that fully deleting the account is the way to avoid them getting this permission. -If you're at all considering that I recommend you request a Twitte archive **THIS SECOND**, as it takes about 24 hours to be emaile to you. Details/links: mastodon.social/@mcc/113324547... Nov 12, 2024, 12:26 AM Web 256 boosts 173 favorites mcc @mcc 10h * Note that even if you delete your Twitter you can still keep your posts online, by using an archive -> html tool, such as this one which I used for my own archive: github.com/mcclure/twitter-arc... (This is a fork of Darius's tool with support for >2GB archives. The documentation could use another editing pass, I apologize for this.). mcclure/twitter- archiver Make your own simple, public, searchable Twitter archive 80 4 30 3 Contributors Issues Stars Forks GitHub GitHub - mcclure/twitter-archiver: Make your own simple, public, searchable Twitter archive Make your own simple, public, searchable Twitter archive - mcclure/twitter-a... 3
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