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I don't think on Twitter we should be 'free speech absolutists'. Its a private company, no need for lots of people.

What I would actually like is seriously shooting down these idiotic bots. Like seriously, they have the exact same name and picture as the main account. How the fuck do we not have machine learning, fuck a bunch of bash-scripts to figure this out?

It makes the platform borderline unusable how much crypto spam bots exist on it.

That said, not a fan of Musk waste his time with Twitter. SpaceX, Tesla are plenty.



The bots are necessary for the quarterly user counts to look good during the shareholder report.

Once they've finished pretending the bot accounts have ad-watching eyeballs, they follow up a couple months later with a token crackdown of some small amount of them.


Maybe less relevant if it were private.


Musk already proposed a small fee per user to verify them. This would add a cost to bots, which would dramatically reduce the numbers. https://techxplore.com/news/2022-04-musk-twitter-dogecoin.ht...


musks fee is proposed on blue checkmarks only, not all users. Not sure it would dramatically reduce anything except blue checkmarks.




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