Elon Musk’s desire to bring back a large cohort of banned people to Twitter, nearly 62,000 large accounts, would require a colossal amount of work, dubbed the “Big Bang” internally.
Elon Musk’s paw is beginning to be felt on the blue bird network, and not just because he calls out to Tim Cook, the boss of Apple, Twitter’s biggest advertiser. With his desire to reopen the door to those banned from the network, many accounts with an influence exceeding one million subscribers will see the light of day. This task, of the order of the titanic, worries the employees.
A “general amnesty” wanted by Elon Musk
It all started with a process that is now familiar to us. We remember that Elon Musk had posted on his personal account a survey on the potential return of Donald Trump. After a tight vote, during which more than 15 million people voted, and which gave birth to a yes at 51.8%, the reactivation of the account of the former president of the United States had been decided.
The Tesla boss followed this model for a new poll, in which he posed the following question: “ Should Twitter offer a blanket amnesty to suspended accounts, provided they haven’t broken the law or engaged in blatant spam? “With 72.4% yes, Elon Musk considered that” the people have spoken and that the amnesty could begin. ” Vox Populi vox dei “, he added.
62,000 accounts and hundreds of millions of subscribers
To realize in detail what awaits what remains of employees within the premises of Twitter, we can refer to the figures obtained by the media Platformer.
According to him, the 62,000 accounts in question each have more than 10,000 subscribers. And within that cohort, 75 accounts are followed by at least 1 million people. Even more impressive, one of them is said to have over 5 million followers. For the moment the identity of these accounts has not been filtered.
The problem is that such a task is not carried out by pressing three buttons. For each account brought back to life, it is necessary to reactivate the data on the accounts following the banned, but also those of the accounts that this same banned follows. To give you a rough idea, we can have fun multiplying 62,000 (banned accounts) by 10,000 (the lowest average number of followers). The result is dizzying. A Big Bang, clearly!
Sources: Platformer, The Verge
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