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Removing and preventing fake accounts should be they're no. 1 priority.
by mpg33 11y ago
Removing and preventing fake accounts should be they're no. 1 priority.
- themeek 11y agoWhy do you believe this should be their highest priority?
- mpg33 11y agoRuins the experience. Fake followers. Fake tweets. Just don't understand how it hasn't been fixed yet.
- oldmanjay 11y agoOut of curiosity, how would you fix it?
- themeek 11y agoCurrently DIA uses internet signals collection, social media analysis and human intelligence to identify foreign messaging and popular messages that are harmful to national security. They will submit requests to have these taken down (as the State Department did to Youtube to take down Al-Alwaki's videos) - though currently Twitter is not very cooperative. I do not know how Twitter would handle a problem like this itself.
- themeek 11y agoMy guess would be that it is because fake accounts are not merely fraud, but are often front organizations, either by lobbyists and political PACs or by corporation PR groups, or by nations states abroad and at home for their own covert 'PR'. These fake accounts are quite difficult to detect. The accounts that are easy to detect are avoided anyway, since users get to manage their own subscriptions. Some are even cherished for their novelty - horseebooks, etc. Detecting these covert accounts means being a middle man for whichever party lays a claim about source - and this makes Twitter a middleman for other parties' curation.
- chatmasta 11y agoWhy? More accounts = higher numbers = happy stakeholders. Is it in twitters best interest to delete "fake" accounts? Also, how do you disambiguate a friendly bot from an unfriendly one?
- jeffmould 11y agoI know off topic, but I sort of agree, just not the #1 priority. The #1 priority should be to fix their implementation of 2FA. It is completely baffling why a company that faces many user account hacks has such a limited implementation. I know many users that manage multiple accounts and to limit them to implementing 2FA to only one account per phone number makes no sense to me. As for the fake accounts I think they flourish on Twitter not just because it is social media, but also because of the follower limits. There is a whole underground business of fake accounts to get real users over the 2000 follower mark initially and even higher as the account grows as followers to following becomes out of whatever proportion Twitter sets. I think if they eliminated or adjusted the 2000 follower limit (there are other ways to detect spam accounts besides limiting the account to 2000 followers until they cross a threshold) it would help some with deterring this issue. Sorry rant over :)
- Crito 11y agoWhat do you mean by fake account? People not using their real name on twitter? Or spam bot accounts and stuff? I fear they might be tempted to attack the later by attacking the former.