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This list contains the top 50 accounts with the most followers on the social media platform X, formerly and commonly known as Twitter.Notable figures such as Elon Musk, Barack Obama, Cristiano Ronaldo, Justin Bieber, Rihanna, Katy Perry, Narendra Modi, and Donald Trump are at the top of the list, each with over 100 million followers.
Followers (millions) Description Brand account 1 @elonmusk Elon Musk: 216.4 Businessman and owner of X/Twitter 2 @BarackObama: Barack Obama: 130.8 U.S. President (2009–2017) 3 @Cristiano Cristiano Ronaldo: 114.5 Football player 4 @justinbieber Justin Bieber: 109.6 Musician 5 @rihanna Rihanna: 108.2 Musician 6 @katyperry Katy Perry: 105.5 ...
[10] [11] @tinycarebot is a Twitter bot that encourages followers to practice self care, and brands are increasingly using automated Twitter bots to engage with customers in interactive ways. [12] [13] One anti-bullying organization has created @TheNiceBot, which attempts to combat the prevalence of mean tweets by automatically tweeting kind ...
Social media sites, like Twitter, are among the most affected, with CNBC reporting up to 48 million of the 319 million users (roughly 15%) were bots in 2017. [12] Botometer [13] (formerly BotOrNot) is a public Web service that checks the activity of a Twitter account and gives it a score based on how likely the account is to be a bot. The ...
As with many other social networking websites, usage by public figures attracts more people to Twitter, thereby increasing opportunities for advertising. Twitter has provided two facilities to its high-profile users. The first is the verified account. Secondly, Twitter attempts to work with celebrity and media public relations staff to ...
Twitter and its CEO Jack Dorsey clarified that the reduction in the followers count was part of the platform's efforts to cut down on spamming and bot accounts. [37] [41] Dorsey's own account lost about 230,000 followers in the purge. [40] On 27 July 2018, Twitter's stock went down by 20.5% (equivalent to $6 billion). [38]
Twitter has altered the trend algorithm in the past to prevent manipulation of this type with limited success. [55] The Twitter web interface displays a list of trending topics on a sidebar on the home page, along with sponsored content (see image). Twitter often censors trending hashtags that are claimed to be abusive or offensive.
This is a list of notable Twitter services and applications. Twitter's ecosystem of applications and clients crossed one million registered applications in 2011, [1] up from 150,000 apps in 2010. These Twitter apps were built by more than 750,000 developers around the world. [2] A new app is registered every 1.5 seconds, according to Twitter.