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> a running joke on Elon Musk's feed anyway where people constantly to do this using fake accounts of his. How does twitter allow this spam?
by maps7 6y ago
> a running joke on Elon Musk's feed anyway where people constantly to do this using fake accounts of his.
How does twitter allow this spam?
- kerng 6y agoThat's a good question - there was a time, not too long ago where every single tweet of Musk was spammed with BTC giveaways.
- fbreton 6y agoThey don't, but the spammers have become more sophisticated over time. They use Cyrillic letters that look like Latin letters, they hack old unused accounts (sometimes verified ones), they post the spam as a second-level answer, they use images instead of tweeting text, they have started adding noise and various transforms to the images to make them harder to automatically classify as spam, and they probably have many more tricks up their sleeves. Fighting against spam is hard.
- prvc 6y agoShocking that they don't take even basic precautions like image hashing to cut down on this.