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“@Cernovich It is impossible to tell with unverified accounts whether you’re dealing with a small or large number of real people, as sophisticated bots are virtually indistinguishable from humans. With unverified accounts, there is also no way to tell if the organization complaining was…”
“@Scobleizer We shut down a lot of bots this week”
“@krassenstein Agreed on all. We’re changing polls to allow votes only by verified users. That’s critical to avoid polls getting bot-spammed on controversial issues. The ADL has done a lot of good work in prior decades, but has been overzealous in recent years & hijacked by woke mind virus.”
“@cb_doge @X That’s coming. The only numbers that will matter in the long term are verified followers & likes. This applies to all platforms. Either verify identity through a few dollars of payment per month or be overrun by millions of bots that cost less than 1/10th of a penny each.…”
“@xDaily @SawyerMerritt The bot wars continue”
“Past bot defenses are failing. Only subscription works at scale.”
“This essentially means that X Premium (fka Twitter Blue) is free for accounts that generate above 5M views. Note, only views from verified handles count, as scammers will otherwise use bots to spam views to infinity.”
“Also, this is after removal of a vast number of bots”
“@_jairath Mostly fake. That platform is overrun by bots next-level. They implemented view limits, but not write limits.”
“@farzyness What actually matters is ads served to other verified accounts (so we know they’re not bots). We’re working on bugs that caused very few ads to be served on some accounts and also revenue sharing ads served on profile views. This could 10X or more payouts to some users.”
“@jeremyjudkins_ We’re trying hard to stop bots & trolls on this platform, so that may be part of the reason”
“@teslaownersSV As promised. Soon, we will share ad revenue from profile page views, which should roughly double payouts. Note, only views from verified users count, as it is otherwise trivial to bot scam the view count.”
“@stevenmarkryan It’s not exactly per impression. What matters is how many ads were shown to other verified users. Only verified users count, as it is otherwise trivial to game the system with bots.”
“@TitterDaily Exactly, it is hardest to fool. Troll farms can still manipulate screentime via humans with lots of phones, but that is >100 times more expensive than bots.”
“@libsoftiktok Your account was labeled as NSFW by our dick pic bot on 6/26, because you posted media with nudity from Pride parades. Corrective action is to label the individual posts as NSFW, rather than the whole account. Should be fixed now.”
“@Thomasslabbers Accurate. Unless bots start buying things at scale, only human views count.”
“@garrytan Fighting bot and troll farms is hard”
“@nearcyan Any social media companies that allow unauthenticated access will become bot-strewn hellscapes as soon as they become relevant”
“@AskTheWassie Promotion of scams under the guise of being a funny/helpful bot will result in suspension. Doesn’t matter how much you pay us.”
“@TitterDaily @danprimack Hopefully releasing the update this week. As I’ve said many times, it is increasingly difficult to distinguish between AI bots. Soon, it will be impossible. The only “social networks” that survive will be those that require verification. The payment system is a means of…”
“That said, it’s ok to have verified bot accounts if they follow terms of service & don’t impersonate a human”
“Starting April 15th, only verified accounts will be eligible to be in For You recommendations. The is the only realistic way to address advanced AI bot swarms taking over. It is otherwise a hopeless losing battle. Voting in polls will require verification for same reason.”
“Given that modern AI can solve any “prove you’re not a robot” tests, it’s now trivial to spin up 100k human-like bots for less than a penny per account. Paid verification increases bot cost by ~10,000% & makes it much easier to identify bots by phone & CC clustering. Obvious…”
“@TwitterSafety This is a critical distinction. It’s obviously trivial for a single person to create 10k bot accounts on one computer, each of which is tweeting slurs that are written to avoid text string detection. What matters is whether those tweets are actually shown to real users.”
“In the coming weeks, Twitter will prioritize replies by: 1. People you follow 2. Verified accounts 3. Unverified accounts Verified accounts are 1000X harder to game by bot & troll armies. There is great wisdom to the old saying: “You get what you pay for.””
“@HistoryInPics Some bots are good, but yes”
“@mundfish @BillyM2k I sure hope Tesla bots don’t malfunction! We’re taking great care to ensure that Optimus can easily be powered down locally with a physical switch to reduce the risk of centralized control.”
“@cb_doge Tesla vision AI could really crush these Google “not a bot” tests lol”
“@PepitoTheCat @BillyM2k @ericnakagawa Responding to feedback, Twitter will enable a light, write-only API for bots providing good content that is free”
“@BillyM2k @ericnakagawa Yeah, free API is being abused badly right now by bot scammers & opinion manipulators. There’s no verification process or cost, so easy to spin up 100k bots to do bad things. Just ~$100/month for API access with ID verification will clean things up greatly.”
“@teslaownersSV You’re welcome. Note: apparent engagement on Twitter will seem lower, as bots would like/follow/retweet much more than people, but now you know it’s real.”
“@cb_doge @ElijahSchaffer If bots are removed from the system, their likes will be removed too. Are you seeing likes from clearly human accounts disappear?”
“@micsolana @teslaownersSV @SjvTesla One of the bot defenses we implemented was flagging any account responding to tweets faster than humanly possible”
“@teslaownersSV @SjvTesla It is very difficult to stop bots & trolls, while not affecting real users. Won’t be perfect either way, but Twitter is far more resilient to fake accounts than it ever has been.”
“@foxmediallc @paulg Twitter Verified tweets are more likely to be recommended to others, as they are less likely to be bots or troll farms”
“@cb_doge @MrAndyNgo @josephmenn @ExplainThisBob Will do. He is a good bot.”
“@barrel_bourbon Even the bots agree 🤣🤣”
“@Harris_X_ @Twitter Interesting. Suggest that maybe we might still have an itsy bitsy bot problem on Twitter …”
“@BillyM2k Haha totally. High quality bots are fine!”
“Cool, the bots are so far unable to swarm to the top of my replies!”
“The bots are in for a surprise tomorrow”
“@teslaownersSV We’re implementing anti-bot bots. You should see some improvement by tomorrow.”
“@neontaster Note, spamming, whether done by a set of humans or bots is against ToS”
“@neontaster Or maybe just … bots 🤷♂️”
“@neontaster They’re bots in human form”
“@Nomad_1x Bot & troll armies might be running out of steam soon. Some interesting lessons to clean up future polls.”
“@Nomad_1x The bot attack is impressive to watch!”
“@saylor Yes, this will destroy the bots. If a paid Blue account engages in spam/scam, that account will be suspended. Essentially, this raises the cost of crime on Twitter by several orders of magnitude.”
“@StephenKing I will explain the rationale in longer form before this is implemented. It is the only way to defeat the bots & trolls.”
“@Nemli_mot Indeed. Biggest bot attack I’ve ever seen.”
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