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Crazy how we can have such different experiences. I follow less than 100 accounts and easily 50% of the responses are always spam/scams. It makes Twitter almost
by ryanSrich 5y ago
Crazy how we can have such different experiences. I follow less than 100 accounts and easily 50% of the responses are always spam/scams. It makes Twitter almost unusable for me.
The most ironic part is that Twitter will show the spam/scams, but hide other replies, from real people, that Twitter thinks are mean.
- jbkiv 5y agoSame here. Unbearable. Stupid suggestions. It has become close to worse than my old yahoo.com email address that I used for junk requests.
- stevage 5y agoI follow around 1000. I see almost zero spam. This whole thread is pretty confusing to me.
- distalx 5y agoUse words like "password", "hacked" in you tweet and wait for it.
- lkbm 5y agoEvery Elon Musk tweet is (or was a while back) filled with spam replies, but I don't recall seeing much outside of that.
- paulpauper 5y agoa few people hit elon twitter hard with spam, made craploads of $ from it
- hammyhavoc 5y agoCould it be that you are perhaps unaware of what is a cleverly veiled spam reply or a scam reply? Lots look conversational, even genuine. You only have to mention NFTs, even in a negative light, and you generally get drive-by likes from verified NFT-related accounts, and if you check their 'Likes', they've liked dozens more tweets since yours. The idea being to draw attention to itself with a certain demographic. Twitter has its own option to report people for this exact behavior. Likewise, the number of QRTs in replies to things boggles the mind.
- scantron4 5y ago>You only have to mention NFTs, even in a negative light, Play stupid games win stupid prizes?
- hammyhavoc 5y agoI don't know if mentioning getting locked out of an account and getting inundated with copy-paster recommendations of users who can help you/regain access/"hack" it so they can steal it is playing a stupid game or just a lack of Twitter caring. I can give literally hundreds of examples, all of which I've reported numerous times for years on end.
- riffic 5y agoHello dear, I recommend you to message my friend on lnstagram I just recovered my account that was hacked with his help! /s
- hammyhavoc 5y agoShoot me!
- riffic 5y agoyou've been permanently suspended by Twitter for promoting self-harm and glorifying violence.
- PragmaticPulp 5y ago> I follow around 1000. I see almost zero spam. This whole thread is pretty confusing to me. Same here. I suppose I could go find spam if I start clicking on every Tweet from a high-profile person and scroll to the bottom of the comments, but the spam isn't jumping out at me on a regular basis. I suspect some people have a very low tolerance for any spam appearing anywhere on a platform, and will get easily triggered whenever it crosses their experience in any way. If you're consuming 100s or 1000s of Tweets and responses in a sitting and scrolling to the bottom of threads, eventually you're going to see something spam-like.
- wartijn_ 5y agoIt's not just a few spam like tweets at the bottom of threads though. If you look at tweets by Elon Musk for example there will be loads, as replies at the top of the threads. Pretty weird how multiple people refuse to believe something can be a problem even though they can't see it.
- paulpauper 5y agoIt depends how twitter is organizing the replies or the device you use. Sometimes twitter arranges comments by newest first but other times it sorts them seemingly randomly. It used to be that verified accounts would always rank high, but then 2019-2020 twitter changed it so that they don't automatically get a ranking boost.
- nradov 5y agoWhy would you ever look at the replies?
- wartijn_ 5y agoThere can be many reason. One of them is that you click on a direct link to a tweet, because the replies will often be on the same screen as the main tweet.
- gonehome 5y agoJust tweet the word “metamask” in any context and instantly get three replies from bots trying to scam you. There’s a ton of stuff like this.
- paulpauper 5y agoif depends who and what you follow. crypto always has tons of spam
- browningstreet 5y agoI have no idea what this twitter spam is. Really.
- Retr0id 5y agoSame. I follow ~700 accounts, and have ~10000 followers, but I get minimal spam. The vast majority of engagements seem genuine. The last spam I got was where someone tagged me in some bullshit NFT giveaway, where entrants had to tag 5 of their "friends" to qualify. Definitely spam, but at a cursory glance, it was human-generated rather than bot spam.
- miohtama 5y agoCrypto spam is a curse. I get 3-4 reply to spams everyday. It is becoming such a nuisance so that I started a thread where I collect spam screeshots https://twitter.com/moo9000/status/1481033447397277696 https://twitter.com/moo9000/status/1481033447397277696
- marcan_42 5y agoI get ~one of those NFT spam mentions daily. I don't get why Twitter doesn't outright block accounts that tweet stuff like "giveaway" and "tag.*friends" and are followed by replies that start tagging people, especially people they don't even follow. That's blatant spam. I don't get much other spam though. Edit: oh yeah, on a Japanese account I have I get the odd mass DM offering scam sex/easy money/whatever. I've also noticed a trickle of obvious spam account followers there (it's always "girls" with sexy profile pics and a profile blurb that invariably mentions adding her on LINE, and ~zero followers except other bots and just a couple tweets). Spam is very different depending on the market.
- Retr0id 5y agoThinking about it now, I do go out of my way to avoid mentioning crypto-adjacent keywords, which helps avoid this type of spam. Perhaps it would be much worse if I didn't.
- marcan_42 5y agoThe keywords seem to trigger scam bots replying to you, but the NFT giveaway stuff just seems to be completely random, based on follow counts, or something like that. It just keeps happening and I've only mentioned NFTs once or twice (to complain about them).
- easrng 5y agoPost "My MetaMask is locked and I need help with my essay, coinbase trustwallet help." Or something similar and watch the bot replies flood in.
- Cederfjard 5y agoI’m curious what kind of accounts you follow? I follow mostly American political pundits, journalists and lawyers, and I very rarely see spam.
- rchaud 5y agoThese days, anything crypto/"web3"/blockchain related will have spam/scam shills in the comment threads. Besides that, famous tech people's tweets, like Elon Musk's, are a good camping spot for those accounts. Lots of eyeballs on those threads.
- imgabe 5y agoYep, I made a joke about buying the dip and pretty much immediately got a spam reply from some account shilling a crypto newsletter or something.
- SkyMarshal 5y agoI follow around 5000, zero spam. Everyone I follow is computer science or software engineering focused though, so maybe Twitter's algorithm can easily recognize my preference and fill my timeline with related tweets. Maybe someone who follows a more diverse set of interests will get more diverse tweets in their timeline, more likely to include spam. Just a guess, dunno for sure.
- riffic 5y agoshadowbanning. Twitter says they don't shadowban[0] but they absolutely do if you tweet things that trigger their sentiment analysis algorithms: [0] https://www.reddit.com/r/Twitter/comments/p1ggm4/rtwitter_attempts_to_solve_twitters_shadowban/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Twitter/comments/p1ggm4/rtwitter_at...
- crackercrews 5y agoIt is annoying to have to constantly scroll to "show more" replies. Is there a way to get Twitter to show more than just a few at a time? Would be helpful especially because the not-recommended replies are all hidden at the bottom. What if I want to see what the algorithm is hiding from me? If there are many replies it's time consuming to find out.
- raydev 5y agoAsking genuinely, how many crypto/NFT folks are you following? Because any mention of that stuff brings the bots out. Follow any normal non-celebrity account that isn't talking about the latest moneymaker and you'll find less spam.