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I signed up with a vpn and got banned for life after a single nonsense tweet about not liking the feed and following 4-5 famous people. I don’t think bot detect
by gentleman11 4y ago
I signed up with a vpn and got banned for life after a single nonsense tweet about not liking the feed and following 4-5 famous people. I don’t think bot detection techniques are very robust
> This methodology likely undercounts spam and fake accounts, but almost never includes false positives (i.e. claiming an account is fake when it isn’t).
In other words, their model performs well on their training set, and they don’t acknowledge that it may be over fitted or mislabeled, and they hand wave mistakes
- fivre 4y agothey're robust at generating false positives! i got insta-locked for, i think, signing up using my own email domain, to make an account that shares pictures i took of geese. it took about 4 months to wait for them to unlock it meanwhile, saudi bot armies apparently basically run rampant across the platform
- DerekBickerton 4y agoI'm 6 months into my account and they still haven't asked for a phone number. I mean, I have one ready if they ask for it. Maybe I've been whitelisted as a non-bad-faith actor due to my timezone and other factors.
- joering2 4y agoIts get even worse than that. I have a test account with about 10,000 followers (mostly real people, you can tell), created via home-used IP, and few days after Musk tweet comparing Gates to Emoji of pregnant man, I did exact same tweet! With exact same punctuation, images, icons, everything. Less than 2 days later I am banned for "spewing hatred based on sex, gender or religion". No amount of replies that my tweet was same as another but much much more popular account helped. Banned for life.