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Lightweight is awesome. I feel that the absolute most important next improvement is in managing spam and fake accounts. Things like Lite keep me from deleting
by jtraffic 10y ago
Lightweight is awesome. I feel that the absolute most important next improvement is in managing spam and fake accounts.
Things like Lite keep me from deleting my account. But with less spam, I'd probably use my account.
- bad_user 10y agoI don't deal with spam much, I notice the occasional fav or retweet from obviously fake accounts, sometimes I get a mention too. But all of these happen once per month maybe and I do my job in blocking and reporting every account I notice. Once per month is a pretty low rate, I get more spam than that in my email Inbox. I also have direct messages from everybody active. Since enabling it I haven't received any spam. Maybe I've been lucky :) And I don't have an obscure account (https://twitter.com/alexelcu https://twitter.com/alexelcu). Maybe more popular accounts see more spam, I don't know.
- pjc50 10y agoIf you view twitter by hashtag, you see a lot of spam on popular hashtags - obviously fake accounts who've just put the top 5 hashtags on top of a link they're advertising. Personal @spam is pretty rare.
- tedmiston 10y agoMy account is a similar size and I get hundreds of spam follows every year on Twitter. I always report and block them.
- jtraffic 10y agoThis is an interesting little service: https://www.twitteraudit.com https://www.twitteraudit.com "takes a random sample of 5000 Twitter followers for a user and calculates a score for each follower. This score is based on number of tweets, date of the last tweet, and ratio of followers to friends. We use these scores to determine whether any given user is real or fake. Of course, this scoring method is not perfect" It says that, as of 4 years ago, 28% of Paul Graham's followers were fake and 30% of Elon Musk's were fake.
- bad_user 10y agoI ran it and got as result 1005 Real and 32 Fake. Well, Paul Graham and Elon Musk are insanely popular.