Twitter doesn't care about spam?

Post by pg_bot » Fri, Jan 28, 2022, 11:44 PM UTC

khalilravanna wrote: post #150

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.

Post by Graffur » Fri, Jan 28, 2022, 11:47 PM UTC

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…

Post by paulpauper » Fri, Jan 28, 2022, 11:55 PM UTC

wartijn_ wrote: post #104

PragmaticPulp wrote: post #91

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> 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.

Post by ummonk » Sat, Jan 29, 2022, 12:13 AM UTC

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.

Post by mdoms » Sat, Jan 29, 2022, 12:50 AM UTC

paulpauper wrote: post #94

jonathan-adly wrote: post #13

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Just tweet metamask lol - its the magic word. Edit: WARNING this will immediately fill your feed with spam. Don't click anything that you get.

they are probably not making any $ with this or else you would see the same sophistication that goes into this spam as you see with YouTube crypto spam. These guys are not on their A game here.