Bot Cleaning, X Users May Lose Some Followers

Platform X sedang bersih spam dan bot (foto: Unsplash)

JAKARTA - Platform X has warned its users who may lose some of their followers, as the company is now cleaning spam and bots on its platform.

"Today, we started a proactive and significant initiative to remove accounts that violate our regulations regarding platform and spam manipulation," X wrote in his post.

Today, we're kicking off a significant, proactive initiative to eliminate accounts that violate our Rules against platform manipulation and spam. While we aim for accuracy in the accounts we remove, we're casting a wide net to ensure X remains secure and free of bots. As a…

— Safety (@Safety) April 4, 2024

Today, we're kicked off a significant, productive initiative toeliminate accounts that violated our Rules against platform manipulation and spam. While we are for accident in the accounts we saved, we're casting a wide net to ensure X remains secure and free of bots. As a...

The company also added, "Although we are eyeing accuracy in the account we deleted, we are implementing a broad net to ensure X remains safe and free from bots. As a result, you may observe a change in the number of followers."

The initiative comes shortly after X announced the appointment of two new leaders to his safety team, namely Kylie McRoberts and Yale Cohen.

Kylie McRoberts is an employee of X who is now the Head of Safety, while Yale Cohen, previously from Publicist Media, who joined as Chief of Brand Security and Advertiser Solutions.

The removal of spam is the vision of Elon Musk. Where he told his employees in November 2022 that he aims to make eradicating spam a priority in the future on his platform.

On the other hand, surprisingly, some X users get a free blue tick again. Initially, many users were confused by the blue tick on their account. However, Musk has answered their confusion.

"Every account with more than 2,500 verified followers ( Premium or Premium+ customers) will get the Premium feature for free and an account with more than 5,000 (followers) will get Premium + for free," Musk explained through his account.