Why's that company so big? I could do that in a weekend http://danluu.com/sounds-easy/
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I also thought this for a long time, but in retrospect I think I could only have thought this because I never thought about the mechanics of bot removal. For me (and I'm guessing for others), not thinking through the details is a major reason things can seem easier than they are.
Gmail's spam filter gives me maybe 1 false positive per 1k correctly classified ham (I sometimes check the spam folder and this is my impression of the rate). Regularly wiping the same fraction of real users in a service would be a PR disaster and result in users fleeing.
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An even worse problem: with email, if a user has an idiosyncratic notion of what's spam, that's fine b/c the classifier can be trained per user. This is impossible for bot removal since that's a global operation, but people have even more idiosyncratic views of what a bad bot is.
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Welp, that was a timely tweet. One day later:
#TwitterLockOutpic.twitter.com/8brbiecifm
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Also, gmail mostly cares about mass spam. Analogue to Hillary bot/people nets are hate/disinformation e-mails mass forwarded by recipients, and they don't do anything at all with them.
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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