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I think Elon also made a mistake by calling these things bots. Most spam on Twitter is a combination of auto account creation or takeover, and then some human i
by ryanSrich 4y ago
I think Elon also made a mistake by calling these things bots. Most spam on Twitter is a combination of auto account creation or takeover, and then some human in a third world country using that account to scam people. I don’t think Twitter would call that a bot, but I bet Elon would.
I do think Twitter in its current form is essentially unusable due to the amount of scams. I see thousands on a weekly basis. Every feature, from tweets, replies, lists, etc. is a cesspool of scamming. I block 100s of users per week and yet I still get added to “Free ETH drop” lists daily.
- russdill 4y ago"After we determine an account is spam, malicious automation, or fake, we stop counting it in our mDAU" The mDAU exclusion includes such accounts already. I think people (and Elon) use the term bot rather colloquially, so I don't think it's an important distinction anyway.