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I'm curious if this is a real crack down or they are just trying to act like it. All of the big social networks have tons of bot activity to the point that mos
by the-pigeon 8y ago
I'm curious if this is a real crack down or they are just trying to act like it.
All of the big social networks have tons of bot activity to the point that most likely the majority of their requests are from bots. If they actually stopped all bots activity it would tremendously hurt their user counts and thus their valuations.
- prolikewh0a 8y agoI'm curious how many "suspicious" accounts will be real people simply expressing their views. Twitter does openly admit to censorship [0], so it's not exactly a wild thought. [0] https://www.lgraham.senate.gov/public/_cache/files/4766f54d-d433-4055-9f3d-c94f97eeb1c0/testimony-of-sean-edgett-acting-general-counsel-twitter.pdf https://www.lgraham.senate.gov/public/_cache/files/4766f54d-...
- andygates 8y agoHuman logs on ,sees suspension notice, goes through unsuspension process. Bot dies. Those humans are usually very bot-like retweet mills anyway, in my experience. Thou complain'st too much.
- burfog 8y agoNope. Human logs in, sees Twitter demanding personal information like a phone number or worse, goes away.