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Re: Twitter doesn't care about spam?

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Post by crackercrews »

ryanSrich wrote: post #31
jsnell wrote: post #9

Option d: nobody outside of the Twitter TnS teams (including Paul Graham) has any idea of what Twitter is detecting as spam and what not, and thus can't actually judge how good a job is being done. First, we don't see the spam that was outright blocked, so we have no idea of what the false negative rate is. Second, I bet that this is not a binary block/allow decision, but there are all kinds of ways of reducing the e…

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.

It is annoying to have to constantly scroll to "show more" replies. Is there a way to get Twitter to show more than just a few at a time? Would be helpful especially because the not-recommended replies are all hidden at the bottom.

What if I want to see what the algorithm is hiding from me? If there are many replies it's time consuming to find out.

Re: Twitter doesn't care about spam?

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Post by MarkMc »

I'm currently on holiday in Thailand and Twitter has decided to show me ads in Thai (a language I don't speak).

I think it's just more exciting for people at Twitter to work on NFTs than to do boring work like spam control or filtering ads by user language.

Re: Twitter doesn't care about spam?

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Post by president »

LeoPanthera wrote: post #48

What I don't understand is that Twitter makes it so difficult for new humans to sign up for an account, how are the robots getting around it? I wanted to create a second Twitter account, but almost immediately after signing up it was blocked for "suspicious activity". I hadn't even posted yet. The only way to resolve it was to add a phone number to the account, but I only have one and it was already assigned to my fi…

Where there is money to be made, there is always a way

Re: Twitter doesn't care about spam?

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Post by CyberRabbi »

DisjointedHunt wrote: post #52
CyberRabbi wrote: post #49

If you feel the need to complain about the quality of Twitter posts you use Twitter too much. Get a more interesting hobby for your own sake

>“If you feel the need to complain about ” This should never ever translate to “you use it too much”. I mean, speak to the quality of the substance in the argument and not throw out the right to voice an opinion about something that seems broken.

Voicing an opinion about something broken is good but Twitter is clearly a silly social media site. Did he not get the memo? It’s like criticizing Tik Tok for having too much clickbait.

Re: Twitter doesn't care about spam?

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Post by NelsonMinar »

dgellow wrote: post #123
NelsonMinar wrote: post #27

The new flood of cryptocurrency and NFT scams has really made my Twitter spam problem worse. Meanwhile Twitter is endorsing NFTs with UI features.

You can block words, such as NFT or crypto, by going to your user settings. I would recommend everybody to use this feature a lot to avoid stress and content that makes the angry, it’s quite helpful.

I like Twitter blocks! But you can't use a simple keyword block filter to block aggressive spammers who are careful to not use the obvious keywords. Also I'm actively engaged in discussion on Twitter about NFTs and Blockchains, so blocking those keywords does not work for me.

Re: Twitter doesn't care about spam?

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Post by iqanq »

habi wrote: post #64

I have a four letter dormant Twitter account. I get about four mentions/replies per day that link to some nondescript crypto airdrop since several weeks. I manually mark each and every such tweet as spam and block the user, which needs 5 clicks or so. Nothing seems to help.

>I manually mark each and every such tweet as spam and block the user, which needs 5 clicks or so.

How much are you getting paid for moderating Twitter?

Re: Twitter doesn't care about spam?

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Post by browningstreet »

stevage wrote: post #59
ryanSrich wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

I have no idea what this twitter spam is. Really.

Re: Twitter doesn't care about spam?

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Post by Retr0id »

stevage wrote: post #59
ryanSrich wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Same. I follow ~700 accounts, and have ~10000 followers, but I get minimal spam. The vast majority of engagements seem genuine.

The last spam I got was where someone tagged me in some bullshit NFT giveaway, where entrants had to tag 5 of their "friends" to qualify. Definitely spam, but at a cursory glance, it was human-generated rather than bot spam.

Re: Twitter doesn't care about spam?

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Post by khalilravanna »

nostromo wrote: post #37

PG has experience in this space, remember. He played a role in helping detect and prevent spam back in the day. https://www.infoworld.com/article/2674702/techology-business...

But surely that experience being 20 years ago makes it, at best, academic? Should we act like a 20 year old experience makes someone an expert or just another person with an opinion on the internet?

I cynically wonder how much credibility we give this tweet is due to the author having 1) a huge following and 2) lots and lots of money. And of course 3) it being posted on the forum for the company they founded.

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