Why's that company so big? I could do that in a weekend http://danluu.com/sounds-easy/
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In most discussions about twitter on HN, a bunch of devs drop in to say bot removal is so easy twitter obv. must not care at all. Turns out twitter is removing ~1M bots/day. Twitter only has ~300M MAU, making the error tolerance v. low. This seems like a really hard problem.pic.twitter.com/Urm0t1MH57
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Gmail's invite system seems to have advantages. If an account is found to be bad-faith, who let them in? The referrer is evidently a gateway for bad actors; close the gateway. Doesn't stop spam from outside the platform, but probably a good strategy against abuse from within.
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Unlike gmail, there's no way to spam twitter from "outside of" twitter. As I understand it, twitter API accounts only need a phone#— basically disposable. Would twitter's clean-up teams have less work if they could more easily stop spam accounts from being created to begin with?
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Gmail hasn't been invite only since '07. I don't think any major social media site is invite only. Twitter has the highest friction signup of any I've tried (I tried a bunch to compare), I was surprised by how much friction Twitter's willing to add compared to competitors.
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But that's not even close to the friction of having an invite-only site. It's not really clear if "smaller" services like Snap, Twitter, or Pinterest could really survive (without layoffs, etc.) if they added as much friction as an invite-only process creates.
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