Account Markets
X

social network

X

Account Market Pressure21.4
past 30 days
Low3 observations
Aug 17Sep 16
Red = rising pressure Green = easing pressure

Observed Market Price

Insufficient data

Bulk unit medianInsufficient data
Bulk observations0

Observed price history

No disclosed single-account price is on record for X, so no price curve is drawn.

Public asking prices only · Normalized to USD from the published currency using stored reference rates · Single-account and bulk unit pricing kept separate · Median, P25 and P75 only — prices are never inferred · Asking price may not reflect a realized transaction.

Demand drivers

Why these accounts are bought

2 documented
  1. Hijacked and rare-username resale

    The platform joined enforcement against a forum acting as a marketplace for hijacked accounts and rare usernames, some obtained via SIM-swapping and extortion.

    Press report Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and Twitter Target Resellers of Hacked Accounts · krebsonsecurity.comFeb 4, 2021
  2. AI-assisted impersonation bot farms

    Prosecutors seized infrastructure behind an AI-assisted bot farm operating close to 1,000 fake accounts impersonating Americans.

    Court filing Justice Department leads efforts among federal, international and private-sector partners to disrupt covert Russian government-operated social media bot farm · justice.govJul 9, 2024

Every entry restates the abuse or fraud objective described in one named public source — press reporting, court filings, law-enforcement announcements, platform disclosures, security-vendor research or academic studies — and links straight to it. Nothing is inferred from other platforms, and no method, tooling or access route is described. Objectives documented in evidence are not a measure of how often they succeed.

Transparent scoring

Market Pressure Components

v0.1

Observed premiums

Commonly valued attributes

Account ageVerificationReputation / social graphPurchase historyGeographySubscription tierPayment history

Attributes describe themes in evidence, not product recommendations.

Sanitized record

Evidence

3 shown
News Report

U.S. says Russian bot farm used AI to impersonate Americans

Public radio reporting on the same enforcement action described the AI-assisted operation of fake profiles on the platform and placed it in a wider pattern of state-backed fake-account activity around elections.

Media ReportSyntheticRussia
Observed
Jul 9, 2024
Asking price
Not disclosed
Per account
Not disclosed
Confidence
80 · High
View source · npr.org
Court Record

Justice Department leads efforts among federal, international and private-sector partners to disrupt covert Russian government-operated social media bot farm

US prosecutors announced the court-authorised seizure of infrastructure behind an AI-assisted bot farm that created and operated close to 1,000 fake accounts impersonating Americans between 2022 and 2024. The platform suspended the remaining accounts.

Court RecordSyntheticRussia (alleged operators); United States (targets)
Observed
Jul 9, 2024
Asking price
Not disclosed
Per account
Not disclosed
Confidence
90 · High
View source · justice.gov
News Report

Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and Twitter Target Resellers of Hacked Accounts

The platform joined a coordinated enforcement action against members of a forum functioning as a marketplace for hijacked accounts and rare usernames, some obtained through SIM-swapping and extortion.

Platform DisclosureCompromised
Observed
Feb 4, 2021
Asking price
Not disclosed
Per account
Not disclosed
Confidence
78 · Medium
View source · krebsonsecurity.com

Sources & Coverage

3 observations

Low
News Report2
Court Record1
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