Ever since Tesla’s Elon Musk tried to buy Twitter and try to get data on the number of bots on the social media platform, Twitter bots have invaded tens of thousands of posts every day. Bots are rampant in the cryptocurrency industry and any time a popular crypto account posts, the thread is filled with hordes of bots trying to scam people. Despite people regularly reporting bots and openly complaining about the problem, Twitter has done very little to address the problem.
Binance-backed mask bot charges – ‘Twitter, please, I’ve seen enough of my boss’
Twitter (NYSE: TWTR ) has a problem with fake accounts or bots, which are rampant in the crypto ecosystem and other industries such as technology, finance and politics. Bots and fake accounts are known to exist, but when Elon Musk tried to buy Twitter earlier this year, the group asked for numbers about the amount of spam using the social media app. When Musk decided to terminate the agreement with Twitter, the lawyer explained that the Tesla executive needed additional information necessary to “make an independent assessment of the spread of false or spam messages on the Twitter platform.”
Musk’s attorney added:
Sometimes Twitter ignores Mr. Musk’s requests, sometimes it rejects them for seemingly irrelevant reasons, and sometimes Mr. Musk claims to be compliant, providing incomplete or unusable information.
In late August, a judge in a Delaware court ordered Twitter to provide Musk and his team with additional information. Additionally, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has begun investigating spam accounts using social media apps. On Sept. 5, Musk tweeted about the new “Rings of Power” movie and said after the comment, “And 90% of my comments are bots.” Musk shared an image of Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao, otherwise known as “CZ,” spamming accounts.
The official Binance account on Twitter complained to the social media company in Musk’s thread and said: “Twitter, please, I’ve already seen my boss. Can you help me not see him 99x every day?” The account name “CZ Binance” is currently the most popular spam account name, and a simple search will immediately show it 16 accounts Impersonating “CZ Binance”. Writing the name of CZ in Binance in the word Different variations It produces dozens of CZ bots that spam people on Twitter every day.
Army of CZ Twitter Bots
Currently, the existing group of CZ bots that publish tweets can be found spamming all major crypto accounts. For example, the Twitter account For Bitcoin.com news has 2.6 million followers, and every time Tag Tweets has posted a new article., Spam appears in large numbers and some are fake CZ accounts. Many other fake accounts use NFT images for their profile pictures and spam comments with links and then say:Why is no one talking about this?” The people respond to the comment with a fake account in order to reinforce the scam. “This is crazy,” says one person in response to a YouTube video scam.
The same can be found in the tweets of all popular Twitter accounts, including spam accounts and CZ bots Coindesk, Cointelegraph, Block, Coinbase, Crypto.com, Bitfinex, Blockchain.com, more. In addition to CZ, since the Ethereum Merge hype began, Twitter has been flooded with several Vitalik Buterin copy-cat Twitter bots. And what’s worse is the thing. Some of these accounts With a blue check mark. Even Buterin clearly They made fun of him One of the popular comments crypto bot scammers like to make on Twitter threads is: “But why is everyone silent on FQTP on this?” After the comment, Buterin ‘Rickrolled’ with Rick Astley’s official music video for “I’ll Never Let You Down”.
The reporting process on Twitter is divided into several sections, but provides the ability to report an account that has been accused of “[Spamming or] Posting malicious linksMisuse of hashtags, fake engagement, repeated replies, retweets or direct messages. After reviewing this section of Twitter’s complaint process, the account may be accused of “posting misleading or deceptive links, leading to scams, phishing or other malicious links.” After notifying Twitter that the account is posting misleading or deceptive links that lead to fraud, Twitter will ask you one more time to verify the report. Twitter’s reporting process asks for “it appears that you want to report platform fraud and spam.”
Typically, after reporting dozens of these spam accounts, bots still exist in large numbers and often Twitter doesn’t respond to the report. Once in a while, Twitter responds to the report saying that the account is suspected of spamming. Usually, Twitter simply hides the spam account from the person who reports it, and the fake account is still visible to the general public.
Crypto influencer Pomp addresses Twitter’s spam tag problem, the social media company’s head of information security is asked about the spam issue.
Last week, the popular Twitter account “Pomp” operated by crypto investor Anthony Pompliano; He filed a complaint About bot status. “I’ve blocked hundreds of Twitter bots by hand today,” Pompliano said He wrote On September 12. “This happens every day. How in the world can a $32 billion company not solve this problem? I blocked over 30 bots that responded to the original tweet in the first 4 minutes. Unreal,” added the crypto influencer.
Twitter, the company’s employees and its support team have long been questioned about bots and spam. Leah Kisner, CISO of Twitter’s data security, privacy engineering and IT teams, was asked about the problem on August 18. “Have you thought about putting together a spam team?” The man he asked “It’s out of control,” Kisner said. [especially] In the bitcoin/crypto sphere. Check any bitcoiner [a] Gentle follow” Kissner answered the question and he said.“Faith and health and safety are separate groups. We work with them but different original. The man gave a statement and responded to Kisner he said.:
I thought spam prevention fell under data security. My mistake then.
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