Twitter now says 1.4 million users interacted with Russian spam accounts

Midway through January, Twitter posted a public statement on their blog confirming that over 677,000 users had followed, liked or retweeted messages from Russian-backed spam accounts. The social network reached out to inform everyone who had. But today, Twitter updated their count to 1.4 million users who had interacted with these accounts leading up to the 2016 election. In a company blog post, Twitter said the increased number included interactions they hadn’t previously considered: That 1.4 m