GlobalData reports that about 10% of active Twitter accounts send spam. This figure is double the microblogging network itself. The difference may be due to different spam criteria.

Siddhart Kumar, a senior researcher at GlobalData, said the spam counting problem is urgent. For this reason, Elon Musk suspended the deal to buy Twitter. His team also acknowledged that the amount of spam on Twitter is much higher than 5%.

According to Kumar, calculating the exact number of spam accounts is difficult because the spam criteria are unclear and the user is difficult to identify. Retweets of other people’s content will be considered spam by some, with active dissemination of information and opinions.

The GlobalData mathematical model estimated the number of spam accounts using a number of parameters. These include account verification, time between posts, average message length, number of message links, and more. As a result, he gave 10%.