Criticism of Twitter's failure to prevent misinformation and abuse on its platform has risen since the 2016 election. In the first quarter, the company removed more than 142,000 applications connected to the Twitter API that was collectively responsible for more than 130 million "low quality" tweets during the period. The company has also limited the ability of users to perform coordinated actions across multiple accounts.

Source: Los Angeles Times April 30, 2018 14:37 UTC