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Is it just me or did Twitter just remove a large honey pot for identifying fake accounts? For example, a recent anti Net Neutrality marketing push was allegedl
by mattferderer 9y ago
Is it just me or did Twitter just remove a large honey pot for identifying fake accounts?
For example, a recent anti Net Neutrality marketing push was allegedly done by AT&T paying a company who owned a large amount of accounts to tweet members of US Congress the exact same message at roughly the same time. I can't think of an easier way for Twitter to round up a ton of potential fake accounts than watching for these type of events.
I'm not saying that if 100 accounts all post the same thing at the same time, they're all fake accounts. I'm just saying those 100 accounts are worth looking into with other automated checks.
- eXpl0it3r 9y agoMaybe, but instead they added measurements that the event itself shouldn't occur at all in the first place. Since tweets are very short-lived I feel it's more important to proactively prevent spam rather than reactive. Besides that, while it's quite easy to "detect" some spam wave as a human within a given context, implementing such a detection in an automated manner is a lot harder, because a machine doesn't have intuition and have the context required to notice it.