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It’s amusing to me that they end each fake reply with a string of four random letters. What better way to scream “I’m a bot”?
by nneonneo 4y ago
It’s amusing to me that they end each fake reply with a string of four random letters. What better way to scream “I’m a bot”?
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- dr_kiszonka 4y agoI wonder what these strings are. Some sort of an ID? Or maybe to make these tweets sufficiently different from each other to avoid triggering spam detection?
- TremendousJudge 4y agoI'd put my money on the second one
- jstarfish 4y agoI was impersonated on another medium recently. Appending some sort of hash to the end of every message was my first thought as a countermeasure. (Didn't end up implementing; easier to abandon the platform altogether and deny anything purportedly attributable to me.)