Bot Sentinel: about 877K Twitter accounts were deactivated and 497K were suspended between October 27 and November 1, more than double the usual (Chris Stokel-Walker/MIT Technology Review)

Zheping Huang / Bloomberg:
Kuaishou reports Q3 revenue up 12.9% YoY to ~$3.2B, beating estimates, and a ~$378M net loss, holding its own against ByteDance and China’s slowing economy  —  Kuaishou Technology’s revenue beat estimates, holding its own against a slowing Chinese economy and competition from TikTok owner ByteDance Ltd.

Jonathan Vanian / CNBC:
Meta begins testing a single interface to manage Facebook and Instagram accounts and streamlines registration to help users create accounts on both services  —  – Meta is testing new features intended to help people more easily manage their Facebook and Instagram accounts via one interface.

Anuran Sadhu / Reuters:
Stolen data of 600,000 Indians sold on bot markets so far – study  —  Around five million people globally have had their data stolen and sold on the bot market till date, of which 600,000 are from India, making it the worst affected country, according to one of the world’s largest VPN serice providers NordVPN.

Anuran Sadhu / Reuters:
Stolen data of 600,000 Indians sold on bot markets so far – study  —  Around five million people globally have had their data stolen and sold on the bot market till date, of which 600,000 are from India, making it the worst affected country, according to one of the world’s largest VPN serice providers NordVPN.

Nivedita Balu / Reuters:
Shopify reports Q3 revenue rose 22% YoY to $1.4B, above $1.34B estimates, and GMV grew 11% YoY to $46.2B; shares jump 7%+  —  Shopify Inc (SHOP.TO) beat Wall Street estimates for quarterly revenue on Thursday, as businesses stuck to the Canadian online services provider’s tools and payment options to scale up.

Bloomberg:
Twitter permanently bans @ElonJet, a bot sharing public data about Elon Musk’s jet, its creator, and ~30 of his accounts; Musk had said he would not ban the bot  —  Twitter Inc. has suspended multiple accounts that track the locations of private jets using publicly available flight data …