The shutdowns were part of a concerted effort by Twitter to clear up the platform because many of the accounts were thought to be used by trolls or remotely controlled bots that abuse the service.
Twitter declined to comment on the Post story but said it was making an effort to "improve" public conversation on the social network.
Juan Guzman, a researcher at UCL who has exposed hundreds of thousands of bots on social media, said Twitter had neglected tackling automatic tweet generators for years.
"Until recently, Twitter did not think bots were a problem on its platform and did not lead a strong bot-detection effort," he told the BBC, it was only after Brexit and the 2016 election, where these bots became a liability and Twitter, as well as Facebook began taking them seriously."
Last month, Twitter acquired Smyte, a company specialising in technology that helps people tackle spam, abuse and fraud.
But Mr Guzman, who has helped create the Astroscreen software to spot bots, said it was only going to get harder for Twitter to spot and remove the junk accounts.
"There is a cat-and-mouse game between the botmakers and social networks, whereby botmakers quickly update their methods to avoid detection," he said.
"With breakthroughs like conversational AI, you'll see bots in the future being harder to detect.
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