Twitter CEO and co-founder Jack Dorsey

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Twitter has notably made a recent increase in its efforts in battling online misinformation and malicious activity on its platform known to be home to over 330 million global users and right now, according to report from The Washington Post, Twitter flagged accounts to the tune of over a million each day for the period between May and June which came to an estimate of 70 million suspended accounts during the past two months, A figure that even when related to Twitter’s crackdown on malicious online activity is predicted to affect user growth of the social media platform.

With recent issues surrounding the use of social media’s data and its platform in the spreading of false content, hate speech and carefully crafted manipulative content such as the use of bots and fake accounts in interfering with the previous U.S. Presidential election, Twitter is now increasing its efforts in taking down bots and flagging suspicious accounts on its platform in order to make its platform more safe, transparent and to also provide more quality content for its users.

But even with this, These crackdowns would lead to a decrease in the number of stated users by the company which might affect its stock and business operations as investors will usually react to a decrease in the company’s user numbers negatively which might send Twitter stock and share price down.

Twitter known widely for its real-time social media platform which set trends and make global news of noteworthy events in short and easy time has had issues with several users abusing its platform heavily which has led to the company taking aggressive measures on curbing suspicious activity on its platform.

The 70 million figure brought by The Washington Post was later confirmed by Twitter whose internal push to aggressively clampdown on malicious activity and users represents a major change for the company which plans to make its digital environment more safe by protecting its users from manipulative and misinformative content while the company continues to improve its business operations.

Twitter stands at a market value of $34.28 Billion (as of writing) which is over 20% higher than its market cap of last year as investors are banking on the company’s growth, monetization strategy and its ability to keep users on its platform of which keeping its digital presence free from malicious content is a very huge step.

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