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The paid blue checks basically created a bot-engagement tier. for $8/mo you can protect your account from getting banned(profit motive to retain paid checks) AN
by MSFT_Edging 3y ago
The paid blue checks basically created a bot-engagement tier. for $8/mo you can protect your account from getting banned(profit motive to retain paid checks) AND get your spam to the top of every post.
- input_sh 3y agoAND now you get paid for views, so just have your bot account post a random stolen video and spam it under every single post that goes anywhere near viral. Boom, easy money.
- jsheard 3y agoI saw an account with a $1000 gold checkmark impersonating a genuine goldcheck account to promote a crypto scam, that's the deluxe spam boosting package.
- stefan_ 3y agoAnd they don't even spam! Instead its just endless ChatGPT drivel and noise. In a way that's even worse.
- jsheard 3y agoI'm guessing the white noise GPT posts are to "warm up" accounts before they start spamming links, to get around spam detection heuristics.
- anigbrowl 3y agoAnd at the same time they put streaming API access behind a $5000/mo paywall so there's no way for independent researchers to easily research/report on botnets, astroturfing campaigns etc.
- jdminhbg 3y agoMusk Twitter has not done any better than Old Twitter at containing spam, but it has managed to at least monetize it, which you have to admit is a small step up.
- nothercastle 3y agoDefinitely not in comments maybe in tweets
- mindslight 3y agoAds are a type of spam, so really this is just moving down market.
- MSFT_Edging 3y agoI never got a porn-bot follow in the 10 years I had multiple twitter accounts until musk hollowed out the company.