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Re: Twitter doesn't care about spam?

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Post by lupire »

ryanSrich wrote: post #98
PragmaticPulp wrote: post #93

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> To test this out, just Tweet something like “my Coinbase account isn’t working” Maybe this is the difference? Cryptocurrency attracts spammers and scammers at a rate far higher than other conversations. Now that you mention it, the only time I recall seeing spam lately was when I read the comments on some cryptocurrency Tweets. I usually avoid cryptocurrency discussions on Twitter because the signal to noise ratio…

This could be the case, but I suspect if you tweeted “how to reset my chase bank account password” you might get the same level of spam. I don’t think it’s only crypto, just amplified in crypto.

it's a lot easier to rob a confused cryptocurrency holder than a confused bank account holder.

Re: Twitter doesn't care about spam?

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Post by winternett »

stevage wrote: post #57
winternett wrote: post #54

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The experience is based on who you follow. Twitter builds a list of topics based on your activity and it never gets edited, so even if you unfollow someone, that list still influences everything you see. Algorithm development has been poor and really frustrating to users because if they even come across someone who followed the Kardashians (for example), they literally get spammed with that news for the life of their…

Eh? Muting words works just fine ?

On your account perhaps, because you don't follow the same people I do... Not on my 2, and for many friends I know.

Try muting "BTS" The (K-Pop group) as an example.

Re: Twitter doesn't care about spam?

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Post by rchaud »

Cederfjard wrote: post #63
ryanSrich wrote: post #31

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Crazy how we can have such different experiences. I follow less than 100 accounts and easily 50% of the responses are always spam/scams. It makes Twitter almost unusable for me. The most ironic part is that Twitter will show the spam/scams, but hide other replies, from real people, that Twitter thinks are mean.

I’m curious what kind of accounts you follow? I follow mostly American political pundits, journalists and lawyers, and I very rarely see spam.

These days, anything crypto/"web3"/blockchain related will have spam/scam shills in the comment threads. Besides that, famous tech people's tweets, like Elon Musk's, are a good camping spot for those accounts. Lots of eyeballs on those threads.

Re: Twitter doesn't care about spam?

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Post by wartijn_ »

PragmaticPulp wrote: post #91
stevage wrote: post #59

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I follow around 1000. I see almost zero spam. This whole thread is pretty confusing to me.

> I follow around 1000. I see almost zero spam. This whole thread is pretty confusing to me. Same here. I suppose I could go find spam if I start clicking on every Tweet from a high-profile person and scroll to the bottom of the comments, but the spam isn't jumping out at me on a regular basis. I suspect some people have a very low tolerance for any spam appearing anywhere on a platform, and will get easily triggered…

It's not just a few spam like tweets at the bottom of threads though. If you look at tweets by Elon Musk for example there will be loads, as replies at the top of the threads.

Pretty weird how multiple people refuse to believe something can be a problem even though they can't see it.

Re: Twitter doesn't care about spam?

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Post by rchaud »

winternett wrote: post #102
stevage wrote: post #57

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Eh? Muting words works just fine ?

On your account perhaps, because you don't follow the same people I do... Not on my 2, and for many friends I know. Try muting "BTS" The (K-Pop group) as an example.

I think there's a minimum character count for mute to work. My mute list includes "NFT" and "NFTs" and yet plenty of tweets get through. However, other mute words that are longer and not acronyms, will be filtered out as requested.

Re: Twitter doesn't care about spam?

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Post by deckard1 »

loceng wrote: post #3

Relevant tweet from Elon Musk yesterday: "Twitter is spending engineering resources on this bs [support for profile photo from NFT] while crypto scammers are throwing a spambot block party in every thread!?" - https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1484456594775678976?cxt=...

"Leopards are eating my face!" says Elon, apparently lacking the self-awareness necessary to realize that he's largely responsible for the crypto spammers and NFT craze in the first place.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1371549960030842893

He seems to not realize the impact of having 70M followers. It's not a WhatsApp group chat, Elon.

Re: Twitter doesn't care about spam?

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Post by ziml77 »

wizzwizz4 wrote: post #72
pmarreck wrote: post #65

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What is universally or objectively "offensive"? Is a young attractive woman who is only following me to try to get me to follow her OnlyFans, "offensive"? Is a die-hard materialist atheist, or a strident born-again Christian "protected by the vaccine of God", "offensive"? Is plain nudity "offensive"? Violent photos or movies? Vanilla sex? Hardcore sex? BDSM sex? Bad words? (Bad word filters are easily defeated with c…

But it could at least be self-consistent. Sometimes identical tweets by different users are given different verdicts. Twitter's offensiveness detection seems about as good as Google's search results. I've just realised a potential reason for this: we're seeing a spam-detection algorithm several years down the line from when Twitter started. That's several years of cat-and-mouse, where the spammers have access to much…

I've seen non-offensive stuff marked as potentially offensive and assumed it was just that the account makes offensive posts often enough that the default assumption is that the tweets are offensive.

Re: Twitter doesn't care about spam?

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Post by nathias »

I followed a lot of academics that turned into spambots around 2020. I'm not sure if they were hacked or just transformed like locust, but they started exclusively spamming covid and anti-trump articles from US media.

Re: Twitter doesn't care about spam?

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Post by ziml77 »

2OEH8eoCRo0 wrote: post #97

Every time Twitter makes a move people either cry censorship or they cry that deleting the spam helps "one side".

When you provide a service to more than a handful of people, there is no winning in any of the decisions you make. There will always be groups of people who will be angry at your actions/inactions.
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