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I got a feeling that so many of the new accounts being made are for spam or scams so that some crappy ML algorithm overfits towards new account as a marker for

I got a feeling that so many of the new accounts being made are for spam or scams so that some crappy ML algorithm overfits towards new account as a marker for scams. Twitter had the same problem a while ago where I could not make an account without it getting instabanned.

Nextgrid 5y ago
Twitter uses instabans as a way to fish for phone numbers - you can unban the account instantly by providing one.
- rightbyte 5y ago
  Oh ye that might explain it. I thought it was incompetence rather than malice but that might be too naive.