Twitter has been discussing requiring bluemark of every user. However, surely one can find fail tier countries where one can abuse their bad infrastructure to get okay'd. Also, verification means privacy issues, depending on implementation.
Discovery of a big Twitter botnet for getting visitors to fake dating sites. With improving AI, it will become impossible to tell human from non-human on Twitter, and because AI attention is ~free, eventually ~100% of Twitter will be bots. Discuss.https://labsblog.f-secure.com/2018/03/16/marketing-dirty-tinder-on-twitter/ …
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Verifying a real govt id is the only way to verify humanness, that's my point about near future of AI (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_test …).
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Past a certain ratio of bot to non-bot runaway feedback loops may form where bots are visiting fake sites provided by other bots and promoting those to yet more bots.
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Not sure what the ultimate consequence would be (e.g. fake sites crash from too many visitors, like feedback loop between a microphone and sound system?)
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Bot visitors are useless because they don't actually buy anything. That's the end goal. All other metrics are just proxies.
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Won't sites have to deal with increased bot visitor volume? What about ad revenue, isn't that just based on thr number of "users" visiting a site and "seeing" an ad?
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Visitor volume is not a big issue, easy and cheap to scale to meet. Ad revenue is ultimately dependent on buys. The revenue per click is a function of the buy/click ratio. As that goes to ~0, so will ad revenue from clicks.
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they've been plaguing Swedish Twitter (me included). As far is I can discern its seems mostly to have been directed at conservative and liberals (EU not Anglo Saxon style liberals).
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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