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> crack down on spambots, and verify all users

This is the part that terrifies me. I enjoy my 'alt' accounts that have an anime waifu avatar and an assumed name. I don't want Twitter outing my real identity. That would ruin Twitter in a devastating way.

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Outing your identity to whom? You must know that Twitter already knows about your alt accounts right? I wouldn't panic just yet, they will probably just derank unverified users in the replies of tweets so spam bots can finally die.

> Outing your identity to whom? You must know that Twitter already knows about your alt accounts right?

They aren't concerned about Twitter, Inc. knowing. They don't want other people on Twitter knowing.

But verifying users doesn’t require publishing their names on their profile page.

> You must know that Twitter already knows about your alt accounts right?

As the article says, the whole miscalculation comes from Twitter counting all your alts as active even when you were only using one of them...

Sure, just a "miscalculation". They would never want to mislead people into thinking they have more users.

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