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As the other poster pointed out, the signup was years ago for some of them so it’s unfair to blame current management for that. I would encourage you to report

by natch 3y ago

As the other poster pointed out, the signup was years ago for some of them so it’s unfair to blame current management for that. I would encourage you to report any bots you notice though. And as Elon said they will make mistakes. As we all know bots versus humans is an eternal arms race, not much new here. > You'd think they would have created a more bot-proof account signup process So you’re concerned about the signup process at sign up time. Sorry to edit but I wasn’t clear before and can’t reply. I just don’t see these. I think they are buried deep in threads that aren’t surfaced. Only by searching specifically can you find them. That’s pretty much what Elon planned: freedom of speech, not freedom of reach. Also it seems reasonable to speculate that these particular bots are not prioritized to the extent that they are directly addressing specific requests on essentially (often) leaf nodes of conversations.

Apocryphon 3y ago
Reg date proves nothing. Accounts can be shared, sold, or hacked. > As we all know bots versus humans is an eternal arms race, not much new here. Calls into question claims that there have been substantiative gains made in that arms race, though- which is the point of this sub-thread in the first place!
- natch 3y ago
  As I said I don't see spam on the site (other than these deep leaf node posts surfaceable only by pinpoint targeted searches which is not normal usage) so I think it's gotten a lot better. You so far haven't convinced me that it's worse, but you're free to question things.
  - Apocryphon 3y ago
    The t-shirt monger scam is just one I've heard about secondhand. What really annoys me is I'm somehow stuck on a bot target list where every other tweet I make gets instantaneously hit with at least one like from an account that is clearly a bot. It's sufficiently annoying that I end up doing a dance where I report the account for spam, block it, and then delete and retweet the tweet just to get rid of the fake interaction. So I'm understandably miffed at the degradation of my twitter experience.

by natch 3y ago

Apocryphon 3y ago

Reg date proves nothing. Accounts can be shared, sold, or hacked. > As we all know bots versus humans is an eternal arms race, not much new here. Calls into question claims that there have been substantiative gains made in that arms race, though- which is the point of this sub-thread in the first place!

natch 3y ago
As I said I don't see spam on the site (other than these deep leaf node posts surfaceable only by pinpoint targeted searches which is not normal usage) so I think it's gotten a lot better. You so far haven't convinced me that it's worse, but you're free to question things.
- Apocryphon 3y ago
  The t-shirt monger scam is just one I've heard about secondhand. What really annoys me is I'm somehow stuck on a bot target list where every other tweet I make gets instantaneously hit with at least one like from an account that is clearly a bot. It's sufficiently annoying that I end up doing a dance where I report the account for spam, block it, and then delete and retweet the tweet just to get rid of the fake interaction. So I'm understandably miffed at the degradation of my twitter experience.