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It always strikes me as odd how prevalent the bitcoin scams are on twitter. Virtually all of Elon Musk's tweets have a very prominently placed "BTC party" scam

It always strikes me as odd how prevalent the bitcoin scams are on twitter. Virtually all of Elon Musk's tweets have a very prominently placed "BTC party" scam shown as a high-level reply. As an example, from his latest non-pinned tweet, the second visible reply is a BTC scam: https://i.imgur.com/ibO94uG.png https://i.imgur.com/ibO94uG.png How does twitter have such a high tolerance for this?

GhostVII 6y ago
I don't use twitter often, but looking over the UI I don't see any ability to flag tweets - am I missing this or does it not exist in any visible place? Pretty much every other social media (Reddit, Youtube, Facebook) seems to have the ability to flag posts. That would make it much easier for them to identify and remove these kinds of replies. Combine that with no upvote/downvote system and people have no way of pushing down spam.
- mfkp 6y ago
  Click on the caret (dropdown) at the top right of the tweet, then "Report Tweet".
vsareto 6y ago
All I can think of when I see this is Jita 4-4 scammers from EVE Online and how it's basically the same playbook just with having to deal with getting new accounts.
nneonneo 6y ago
To boot, I’ve often seen verified accounts (blue-checkmark) promoting these scams, which implies that the scammers have a stable of compromised accounts that they’re using for this activity.
Nextgrid 6y ago
> How does twitter have such a high tolerance for this? There's absolutely no reason for them to care. These bots increase "growth" and "engagement" and are good for their user numbers. The damage these bots do doesn't seem to be enough for people to leave the platform and hit their bottom line. Nothing will change until we have proper regulation that will consider them complicit of such scams and fines them accordingly.

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It always strikes me as odd how prevalent the bitcoin scams are on twitter. Virtually all of Elon Musk's tweets have a very prominently placed "BTC party" scam

by katmannthree 6y ago

GhostVII 6y ago
I don't use twitter often, but looking over the UI I don't see any ability to flag tweets - am I missing this or does it not exist in any visible place? Pretty much every other social media (Reddit, Youtube, Facebook) seems to have the ability to flag posts. That would make it much easier for them to identify and remove these kinds of replies. Combine that with no upvote/downvote system and people have no way of pushing down spam.
- mfkp 6y ago
  Click on the caret (dropdown) at the top right of the tweet, then "Report Tweet".
vsareto 6y ago
All I can think of when I see this is Jita 4-4 scammers from EVE Online and how it's basically the same playbook just with having to deal with getting new accounts.
nneonneo 6y ago
To boot, I’ve often seen verified accounts (blue-checkmark) promoting these scams, which implies that the scammers have a stable of compromised accounts that they’re using for this activity.
Nextgrid 6y ago
> How does twitter have such a high tolerance for this? There's absolutely no reason for them to care. These bots increase "growth" and "engagement" and are good for their user numbers. The damage these bots do doesn't seem to be enough for people to leave the platform and hit their bottom line. Nothing will change until we have proper regulation that will consider them complicit of such scams and fines them accordingly.