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Today, we’re releasing a new free tool to help anyone discover what percent of an any Twitter account’s followers are fake vs. real: The Fake Followers Audit.

The tool is designed to estimate the percentage of a given account’s followers that fit one or more of the following buckets: Spam accounts (those that purely send spam tweets) Bot accounts (those that have no real human actively operating them) Propaganda accounts (those designed to propagate dis/misinformation) Inactive accounts (those that no longer use Twitter or see tweets)

Twitter is looking for outside experts to measure the “health” of the company, it said in a statement, and is seeking proposals to determine exactly how the company is fostering “healthy debate, conversations, and critical thinking” versus “abuse, spam, and manipulation.”

“We’re committing to helping increase the collective health, openness, and civility of public conversation around the world, and to hold ourselves publicly accountable toward progress,” the company said in its blog post today. “By measuring our contribution to the overall health of the public conversation, we believe we can more holistically approach and measure our impact on the world for years to come.”