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Twitter was way worse with bots before Elon's takeover, but it's still terrible. Another example (bots presumably paid for by hedge funds): any post about Game

Twitter was way worse with bots before Elon's takeover, but it's still terrible. Another example (bots presumably paid for by hedge funds): any post about GameStop on Twitter will trigger AMC and other ticker bots to spam the comments under that post/Tweet. Essentially disabling comments for any GameStop related Tweet.

TaylorAlexander 3y ago
> Twitter was way worse with bots before Elon's takeover My experience has been that the problem has so obviously gotten worse it is surprising to me that anyone would say otherwise. I used to get bot interactions maybe once a month and now I get them multiple times per day. Every post I make gets random bot likes, I get bot follows constantly, and multiple times per week I get the big at tweet which is just a tweet full of mentions which is so obviously a bot I can’t believe that behavior doesn’t get fixed. For me bots got way, way worse.
- bboygravity 3y ago
  You may want to look into Peñabots. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pe%C3%B1abot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pe%C3%B1abot
greggsy 3y ago
It’s interesting to see them as a form of DDoS, like a distributed denial of engagement.
- bboygravity 3y ago
  That's been done WAYYYY back https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pe%C3%B1abot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pe%C3%B1abot Negative news/Tweets about presidential candidate get popular? Use spam bots to trigger Twitter algorithms to penalize popular negative Tweet. Positive news/Tweets? No spambots. That was like 10+ years ago.
bigbillheck 3y ago
> Twitter was way worse with bots before Elon's takeover, This has not been my experience. I locked my account a month or so ago but up to then I was reliably getting two sexbot follows a day (and there's a pile of follow requests in my notifications), and there's an awful lot of accounts out there that want to tell me about something of theirs in their bio. (And it's kind of interesting that they haven't done anything about those, but pulled out all the stops to protect the identity of that Texas fascist).
- eek2121 3y ago
  I still have to check twitter occasionally, and I noticed that I get followed by a new bot at least once a day.

TaylorAlexander 3y ago

> Twitter was way worse with bots before Elon's takeover My experience has been that the problem has so obviously gotten worse it is surprising to me that anyone would say otherwise. I used to get bot interactions maybe once a month and now I get them multiple times per day. Every post I make gets random bot likes, I get bot follows constantly, and multiple times per week I get the big at tweet which is just a tweet full of mentions which is so obviously a bot I can’t believe that behavior doesn’t get fixed. For me bots got way, way worse.

bboygravity 3y ago
You may want to look into Peñabots. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pe%C3%B1abot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pe%C3%B1abot

greggsy 3y ago

It’s interesting to see them as a form of DDoS, like a distributed denial of engagement.

bboygravity 3y ago
That's been done WAYYYY back https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pe%C3%B1abot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pe%C3%B1abot Negative news/Tweets about presidential candidate get popular? Use spam bots to trigger Twitter algorithms to penalize popular negative Tweet. Positive news/Tweets? No spambots. That was like 10+ years ago.

bigbillheck 3y ago

> Twitter was way worse with bots before Elon's takeover, This has not been my experience. I locked my account a month or so ago but up to then I was reliably getting two sexbot follows a day (and there's a pile of follow requests in my notifications), and there's an awful lot of accounts out there that want to tell me about something of theirs in their bio. (And it's kind of interesting that they haven't done anything about those, but pulled out all the stops to protect the identity of that Texas fascist).

eek2121 3y ago
I still have to check twitter occasionally, and I noticed that I get followed by a new bot at least once a day.