To be fair, most are bots that don't care about their data. Still, sucks for those, I guess, 5 human users.
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There's 2.8 billion twitter users?
Accounts. They always had a huge bot problem.
I’ve barely ever used twitter but have like 4 accounts to my name over the past 15 years. I kept on forgetting I had already made an account.
Now imagine all the alts and bots and specific accounts people create for projects. Probably much less than 2.8 billion humans have created a twitter account. But 2.8 billion accounts have been created.
As of Jan 2025, X (formerly Twitter) had around 335.7 million users so how is it possible that data from 2.8 billion users has been leaked?
One possible explanation is that the dataset includes aggregated or historical data, such as bot accounts that were created and later banned, inactive or deleted accounts that still lingered in historical records, or old data that was merged with newer data, increasing the total number of records.
It’s also possible that it includes ghost accounts, for people who have been tracked but never made an account. All of those “Share to [Facebook/Instagram/Twitter/etc]” social media buttons that you see on web pages are tracking your activity, even if you don’t have an account with the social media platform. The company 100% has you fingerprinted and tied to a ghost accounts, and is tracking your browsing habits via those buttons. Then if you ever make an account, they simply tie the previously collected tracking data from the ghost account to the new account.
This sound so illegal. Like I don't doubt it, it just sounds like it should be illegal.
That’s because it’s immoral, but not illegal.
it's been around for more than 15 years; it's not out of the question.
That registered at some point sure. Users sure, individuals less so
Don't forget bots
....so I can get all the Pussy in Bio in one place now?
Truly hope this leads to doxxing for anyone and everyone who has paid for the blue checkmark
Ha ha ha
Oh no. The stuff I put out there for everyone to see is now...out there.
Yeah sounds like they could’ve just scraped that tbh?