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> On average, our automated systems catch more than 3.2 million suspicious accounts globally per week — more than double the amount we detected this time last y
by BinaryIdiot 9y ago
> On average, our automated systems catch more than 3.2 million suspicious accounts globally per week — more than double the amount we detected this time last year.
Holy crap that is a lot of suspicious accounts!
It's impossible to find political conversation on twitter without multiple accounts named like `HouseWifeXX937` (always something with weird characters then numbers at the end) in the middle of the conversations and rarely reply like you would expect a real person to do. Sometimes I wonder if I'm in a conversation entirely with bots and it gets depressing; why would I even want to bother using Twitter beyond talking with people I know are people?
Nowadays I mostly ignore any strangers.
- raverbashing 9y agoMaybe there should be a stronger proof-of-work for creating an account on twitter
- zaat 9y agoThey managed to set the bar too low for the common spammer while keeping it too high for a common potential user.
- Cleisthenes 9y ago> Nowadays I mostly ignore any strangers. Isn't that one of the political goals? To undermine your trust of society (i.e. strangers)?
- BinaryIdiot 9y agoYou're exactly right and yet I don't really know how to fix it. Perhaps if Twitter opened up the verification process to anyone (free or paid) then I could limit to only those who are verified so I know I'm most likely talking with a real person. Still, bots will get through the cracks but that has to be better than what is there, today. Right?