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Almost no data here, the only new bit of data to me is that he is defending a system that classifies "FirstnameBunchOfNumbers" as human and not spam. Consideri
by fullshark 4y ago
Almost no data here, the only new bit of data to me is that he is defending a system that classifies "FirstnameBunchOfNumbers" as human and not spam. Considering I can buy followers, and twitter removes tons of accounts as spam and he admits spammers are trying to constantly defeat their detection algorithm, some % of those are probably spam I'd guess.
https://www.denverpost.com/2021/10/27/buy-twitter-followers/ https://www.denverpost.com/2021/10/27/buy-twitter-followers/
- mike_hearn 4y agoSee timestamp 23:55 in this tech talk: https://archive.org/details/hopeconf2020/20200726_2000_People_Are_Not_Bots.mp4 https://archive.org/details/hopeconf2020/20200726_2000_Peopl... FirstnameNumbers is the default Twitter username generation policy. It doesn't imply it's a spam account.
- duskwuff 4y ago> he is defending a system that classifies "FirstnameBunchOfNumbers" as human and not spam That's a signal that a user is new or inexperienced, not that they're a bot. Twitter uses that pattern when automatically generating usernames for new users.