Forgive me, as I don't use twitter much, but what is the problem with twitter bots? If I don't follow them, aren't they essentially invisible to me?
I guess they might pollute search results? Is there something else I'm missing?
Hackers Are So Fed Up with Twitter Bots They’re Hunting Them Down Themselves
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#32Forgive me, as I don't use twitter much, but what is the problem with twitter bots? If I don't follow them, aren't they essentially invisible to me? I guess they might pollute search results? Is there something else I'm missing?
Did you read the article? It's political.
"n October, Twitter’s general counsel told a Senate committee investigating disinformation that Russian bots tweeted 1.4 million times during the run-up to the last presidential election, and such bots would later be implicated in hundreds of tweets that followed a school shooting in Florida."
some of these bots, were not bots btw
Re: Hackers Are So Fed Up with Twitter Bots They’re Hunting Them Down Themselves
#33> (“jakten” means “hunt” in Norwegian) I don't mind the confusion, it's just a fact that we can use knowledge of Norwegian to understand Swedish. Fun fact, same word as yacht, which is borrowed from dutch jacht with the same meaning as Swedish and Norwegian jakt.
It’s also related to Jagd, hunt in German. Depending on your taste in references, you can think of Jagermeister or Liszt’s Wilde Jagd.
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#34Forgive me, as I don't use twitter much, but what is the problem with twitter bots? If I don't follow them, aren't they essentially invisible to me? I guess they might pollute search results? Is there something else I'm missing?
They can still follow you, comment, like and retweet your posts. You can block them but if you are popular enough it might be a problem. They also make search a lot worse and the hashtag system for some tags completely useless since all the posts you'll find under that tag are spam posts.
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#35Forgive me, as I don't use twitter much, but what is the problem with twitter bots? If I don't follow them, aren't they essentially invisible to me? I guess they might pollute search results? Is there something else I'm missing?
Did you read the article? It's political. "n October, Twitter’s general counsel told a Senate committee investigating disinformation that Russian bots tweeted 1.4 million times during the run-up to the last presidential election, and such bots would later be implicated in hundreds of tweets that followed a school shooting in Florida." some of these bots, were not bots btw
"Our citizens are too stupid to have a personal opinion and distinguish between a bot and a real person"
Re: Hackers Are So Fed Up with Twitter Bots They’re Hunting Them Down Themselves
#36The obvious answer is to restrict some API usage, specifically posting, to verified accounts.
This obviously conflicts with Twitter's incentive to maximize their profit and brand. So the next obvious solutions are token measures.
edit: And apparently to downvote anyone who calls them out.
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#37A real hacker move would be to just leave Twitter and go to Mastodon https://joinmastodon.org
Are you suggesting that Mastodon has a better system for identifying harassment, spam, and spam accounts? Or that, given that they're mostly friendly early adopters, they haven't yet encountered the problem?
Why do we need to identify and ban those in the first place?. When I used Twitter I never thought "oh man, these spam bots are ruining my twitter experience". It was more like "Oh, another bot is following me". Didn't waste more than 2 seconds of my day.
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#38I got fed up with Twitter's lack of enthusiasm in blocking these accounts so I whipped up a quick proof of concept a while ago. The amount of trivial-to-detect cryptocurrency scams in replies to popular accounts was so high that I put together a hacky PoC: https://gist.github.com/lorenzhs/864353c202112a38de17ed054f3... -- the scammers' messages have changed now, the messages no longer match that particular filter, but it worked for weeks without Twitter doing anything.
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#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
Are you suggesting that Mastodon has a better system for identifying harassment, spam, and spam accounts? Or that, given that they're mostly friendly early adopters, they haven't yet encountered the problem?
Why do we need to identify and ban those in the first place?. When I used Twitter I never thought "oh man, these spam bots are ruining my twitter experience". It was more like "Oh, another bot is following me". Didn't waste more than 2 seconds of my day.
The bots are manipulating the trending topics which means they're driving the kinds of conversations happening on twitter.
Re: Hackers Are So Fed Up with Twitter Bots They’re Hunting Them Down Themselves
#40I got fed up with Twitter's lack of enthusiasm in blocking these accounts so I whipped up a quick proof of concept a while ago. The amount of trivial-to-detect cryptocurrency scams in replies to popular accounts was so high that I put together a hacky PoC: https://gist.github.com/lorenzhs/864353c202112a38de17ed054f3... -- the scammers' messages have changed now, the messages no longer match that particular filter, bu…
Are you aware that many ICOs give free torkens to people who share a specific tweet or tweet a specific url?