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Every day I still have to block spam bots on Twitter :/ They always follow the same patterns, and can be spotted at a glance. I thought spam filtering was already a solved problem 10 years ago (and we have better ML nowadays)...
Some fake activity detection problems are difficult, e.g. detecting click fraud for displays ads. Even then, the ad industry is doing really well on these issues (often using logistic regression). But Twitter bot detection is not difficult, esp. because accounts are permanent
I am being bombed by academic spam on a daily basis... Dear Dr. Doctor please submit to our journal/come to our conference bla bla bla...
It's clearly much more a matter of will than a matter of technical competence (this is not a hard technical problem at all).
Ofc Twitter could spot and prevent this if they were really motivated to... They probably don't see it as a huge threat to their revenue. It seems like recently they have started to tackle this but v late to the party!
Twitter doesn’t understand its value, doesn’t know its moat is all the important people in the real world who are regularly active on here. Useless spam bot filters are just one example of twitter not prioritising the UX of users who create all its value. Crazy!
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