Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2024/03/27/twitters-░p░u░s░s░y░i░n░b░i░o░-spambots-are-out-of-control.html
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“Why not just block the string?” is a good question
I’ll just assume that Musk is leaving these bot accounts alone because they’re advertising Nazi kink pornography.
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The boobybots and escortbots only degrade the experience (and remind users that they are the product, not the consumers) for humans.
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░S░K░U░L░L░S░I░N░B░I░O░
[Are we the baddies?]
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@sdmikev Coke in bio
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I’m looking forward to the multiple takes from people in this creative BBS as the comments continue.
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Try
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And see what happens.
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I saw vague references to this on the Fediverse, and had hopes that it was related to #caterday.
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another reported problem with the cesspool of twitter, that is so easily avoided by simply never joining twitter.
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For a while, it was the crypto bots. Especially if you said anything about crypto, including, obviously, if you were just talking about it being a worthless scam, you’d get instantly swarmed with them. Now it’s these. Some are less obvious, though - they give (semi-) relevant replies (provided by ChatGPT) to seem like real accounts, but then eventually give the game away. Blocking some strings wouldn’t help stop those.
Because without them, Twitter traffic would plummet and it would be more obvious what a ghost town the site has become. Also, if you block them, Twitter pops up a window trying to upsell you with the paid Twitter account (that apparently allows you to block accounts more easily). The bots themselves have blue check marked accounts. Bots are now an integral part of the Twitter business model in multiple ways.
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I’m sure that it makes complete sense that we should be optimistic about the glorious future of x.ai when regex-level bot purges are apparently too hard.
Remember, folks, this is the everything app that you should entrust with your money and spend all your time on!
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I saw this last month and it made me chuckle. Doesn’t make sense unless you’ve seen “Are You Being Served” (UK show from the 70’s/80’s), but otherwise…
Edit to add -
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Subtle ‘white power’ hand dingus. Highly realistic!
Midjourney has the correct number of fingers.
And I assume this is the horse he wanted to trade for a BJ?
I’m pretty sure the horse’s name is Shanahan? neigh! neigh!
Where is Prince when you need him?
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I’m sure Randall would swing in and do it for them
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