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> And I mean that literally. I have never done anything with the account. I created it years ago, but I never got around to posting a photo or anything. It's ju
by tablespoon 5y ago
> And I mean that literally. I have never done anything with the account. I created it years ago, but I never got around to posting a photo or anything. It's just an account with no activity.
Maybe you got caught up in a sweep for "coordinated inauthentic activity." IIRC, the groups that do that sometimes stockpile inactive accounts for amplifying things in the future. e.g.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/12/13/technology/china-propaganda-youtube-influencers.html https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/12/13/technology/ch...:
> On Twitter, Mr. Gal-Or’s video was shared by many accounts with suspiciously bare digital personas, according to Darren Linvill, who studies social media disinformation at Clemson University. This, he said, is a characteristic sign of a coordinated operation.
> Of the 534 accounts that tweeted the video from April through the end of June, two-fifths had 10 or fewer followers, Professor Linvill found. One in nine had zero followers. For nine accounts, Mr. Gal-Or’s video was their first tweet.
- ceejayoz 5y agoYep. A lot of the spam algorithms penalize new accounts, so spammers started making them months or years in advance to sit idle. Now that’s a spam flag.
- ronsor 5y agoAt this point, companies should just suck it up, hire (more) real human moderators, and deal with the spam manually.
- simple_phrases 5y agoThis implies that these companies care enough about their users' experiences to do something "expensive" like that.
- lozenge 5y agoThe amount of spam created by computers can always outweigh the effort required to clean it up by humans. Hence enlisting computers to fight the spam before it gets posted.