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Relevant tweet from Elon Musk yesterday: "Twitter is spending engineering resources on this bs [support for profile photo from NFT] while crypto scammers are t

by loceng 5y ago

Relevant tweet from Elon Musk yesterday: "Twitter is spending engineering resources on this bs [support for profile photo from NFT] while crypto scammers are throwing a spambot block party in every thread!?" - https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1484456594775678976?cxt=HHwWgIC5gY7a7JkpAAAA https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1484456594775678976?cxt=...

aeternum 5y ago
Yes, it's especially apparent when most of the spam is coming from names that are only a few unicode characters away like El0n Musk. Ridiculous that twitter can't flag that kind of thing.
- loceng 5y ago
  Makes me wonder how the leadership is financially aligned with allowing it.
- duskwuff 5y ago
  For a while, Twitter would autoban your account if you changed your display name to "Elon Musk". But apparently either they stopped, or the spammers figured out how to evade the filter.
stefan_ 5y ago
The best part about this is that the people above telling us they haven't seen spam on Twitter in years just need to click this tweet and scroll a bit.
- lkbm 5y ago
  I did, saw no spam. Clicked "More Replies" three or four times. Still none unless you count https://twitter.com/saylor/status/1484546928704696321 https://twitter.com/saylor/status/1484546928704696321 Can you link a few? Maybe we have algorithm sort set differently? Are you showing "Newest First" or whatever it's called?
deckard1 5y ago
"Leopards are eating my face!" says Elon, apparently lacking the self-awareness necessary to realize that he's largely responsible for the crypto spammers and NFT craze in the first place. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1371549960030842893 https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1371549960030842893 He seems to not realize the impact of having 70M followers. It's not a WhatsApp group chat, Elon.
- loceng 5y ago
  Your tweet reference was him trolling. And he obviously does understand his reach, you saying that isn't a proof point.

by loceng 5y ago

aeternum 5y ago

Yes, it's especially apparent when most of the spam is coming from names that are only a few unicode characters away like El0n Musk. Ridiculous that twitter can't flag that kind of thing.

loceng 5y ago
Makes me wonder how the leadership is financially aligned with allowing it.
duskwuff 5y ago
For a while, Twitter would autoban your account if you changed your display name to "Elon Musk". But apparently either they stopped, or the spammers figured out how to evade the filter.

stefan_ 5y ago

The best part about this is that the people above telling us they haven't seen spam on Twitter in years just need to click this tweet and scroll a bit.

lkbm 5y ago
I did, saw no spam. Clicked "More Replies" three or four times. Still none unless you count https://twitter.com/saylor/status/1484546928704696321 https://twitter.com/saylor/status/1484546928704696321 Can you link a few? Maybe we have algorithm sort set differently? Are you showing "Newest First" or whatever it's called?

deckard1 5y ago

"Leopards are eating my face!" says Elon, apparently lacking the self-awareness necessary to realize that he's largely responsible for the crypto spammers and NFT craze in the first place. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1371549960030842893 https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1371549960030842893 He seems to not realize the impact of having 70M followers. It's not a WhatsApp group chat, Elon.

loceng 5y ago
Your tweet reference was him trolling. And he obviously does understand his reach, you saying that isn't a proof point.