Trying to accomplish shame-based behavior policing, against people with no identity, on a platform that only counts in one direction, does not work. It would be like threatening a gravity well with meteor bombardment.
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Model named "Julie James" joins Twitter two days ago, posts a selfie, the immediately starts retweeting support of constitutional convention to amend American constitution and complaints about the Associated Press. Problem: That picture is someone named "Aletta Ocean."pic.twitter.com/OTIjzhwvHq
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This is not a real person. Account created 2015? First post 6 hours ago? Insults teachers then blatantly misspells? Retweets Guardian about Trump? This is an influence troll account using outrage bait for interaction points. And it works so well because you don’t understand.pic.twitter.com/3YCurha3nE
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Look at the first people who retweeted that. How did they find it? Are they fake accounts too used to boost new bait tweets? Did the original booster account retweet then drop off once it got traction? You are all cogs in a machine you can’t even see the operation of.
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Ultimately, a large portion of Facebook and Twitter’s userbase are casual normies who follow bot accounts that retweet other bot accounts with stolen content and ideas. They have no incentive to just remove these fake accounts. People want trash. They don’t care what it enables.
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Real people or groups who spend all day making social media identities sell access to their account, used to promote things without fingerprints. They’re too perfect and too clean. Their viral tweets are generic, but unique and reworded. Their feed is full of self-help maxims.
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Another aspect of bots: Many of them are hacked accounts kept dormant for years until needed. Then they rename/rebrand if needed, and start bombarding the conversation.https://twitter.com/samthielman/status/1083916505107042305 …
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See what I said about rewording. Users think bots all just repeat the same thing over and over, so unique responses are real people. Bot operators know text-matching is widely in place now. Rewording human language is an infinite fountain of uniqueness.https://twitter.com/TacticalGrace_/status/1084177856203235328 …
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congrats you’ve put 500% more effort into this problem than twitter has
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good thing twitter has a new ciso who has a ton of experience, and is motivated to improve things! cc
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I think I may have found one today via a trump gif I tweeted in jest. Their response and retweet seemed to miss the point I was making. I took heed from your thread and looked at their tweets and following list. Strictly anti Liberal. Blocked it.pic.twitter.com/zKCGL3rwW8
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Not to mention I'm pretty sure that tweet is copy-paste of another, older one I've seen before.
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Remember
#teamfollowback? How many accounts got harvested in the days when people fixated on quantity of followers over quality? Been on Twitter years would have 1000s of followers if I hadn’t weeded out obvious fakesThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Unused accounts for a while, could be linked to an email which could expire sooner, signup to the email, and restore the original account, too many people I know linked their social accounts to emails they haven’t used for years!
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Twitter accounts are like fine wines: worth more on the resale market when they've aged a few years
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This one seems to quirky to be real or maybe it's just not well done and maybe the typos are on purpose to avoid spam filters
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Nope dude is just deranged. I live near Nyack.. lots of drugs and mental health issues there.
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Because unlike Twitter he actually cares?
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Y’know, I would have just been okay with blaming
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