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For years top level replies to the POTUS have had fake Elon bots promoting bitcoin scams and Twitter has been unwilling or unable to get rid of them. I still do
by bradly 7y ago
For years top level replies to the POTUS have had fake Elon bots promoting bitcoin scams and Twitter has been unwilling or unable to get rid of them. I still don’t understand it. Here is an example from yesterday: https://mobile.twitter.com/Compazy/status/1240155288122134528 https://mobile.twitter.com/Compazy/status/124015528812213452... and https://mobile.twitter.com/binubangulsm/status/1240073805206376448 https://mobile.twitter.com/binubangulsm/status/1240073805206...
You can see the bot changed its name and profile pic to match the OP so it isn’t clear to casual Twitter users that the scam is from a different account.
- mschuster91 7y agoThese users are almost always hacked, there have been instances of public, verified people that were abused. The problem is that Twitter's moderation teams are hopelessly overwhelmed, massively understaffed and, for the lack of better words, utterly incompetent/unable to understand cultural context - probably somewhere in India, Vietnam or wherever else you have a large number of cheap heads.
- holler 7y agoThat's an interesting observation, I wonder how one could design a system to moderate a social app at scale? I've been thinking about this recently, but not sure what possible solutions could be. I was thinking there needs to be a way to incentivize the users to self-moderate in a way that is fair and works for most cases.