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This. And also, the cynic in me tells me that closing millions of accounts does not look good in your quarterly report on user base growth/active users.

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They also get political blowback when they do this. There is an inevitable flurry of "Twitter is silencing our voices" posts when they shut down botnets. Congressmen start making statements about it.

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Does twitter really deserve the trust though? I remember a lot of people I know complaining about getting locked out of their twitter accounts a year or two ago, with twitter demanding a phone number for them "for security". Then a few days ago it comes out that they were using those phone numbers for advertising purposes. Do they really deserve the benefit of the doubt on this?

Perhaps, but I think you would agree that "shareholder value" is a relic of the 80s and a poor metric to optimize for.

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