How is Twitter so incompetent that they can't block these bitcoin giveaway impersonation scams?
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Very simple heuristic: if B replies to A, B has exact/near-match profile picture as A, and posts text or image containing text "bitcoin", auto-ban.
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I'd almost suggest you could just skip the third condition; B replying to A while trying to look like A is almost certainly some kind of scam/abuse.
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Hypothesis: the problem is their legal department. Longstanding "looking the other way" about celebrity impersonation "parody" accounts (hi @SwiftOnSecurity!) might be riskier if they had in place a mechanism to catch actually-malicious impersonation.
4:07 PM - 23 May 2018
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