The social media company found, and shuttered, an additional 1,062 accounts associated with the Internet Research Agency, considered a "troll farm" connected to the Russian government, Twitter said in an update posted online. Twitter also said it is emailing notifications to almost 670,000 people in the US who followed, retweeted, or "liked" posts from any of those suspect accounts during the election period. For the 10-week time span investigated prior to the November, 2016 election, Twitter identified a total of 3,814 Internet Research Agency-linked accounts, according to the San Francisco-based company. Those accounts posted 175,993 tweets, approximately 8.4 percent of which were election related, Twitter said. The analysis at Twitter also found an additional 13,512 automated accounts identified as "Russia-linked" and tweeting election-related content during that period, bringing the total to 50,258 accounts.

Source: The Nation Bangkok January 20, 2018 00:22 UTC