Forget crypto spam accounts, Twitter's got another problem which involves bots and accounts promoting adult content and infiltrating Direct Messages and interactions on the platform. And there doesn't ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. But since the beginning of 2024, a distinct style of spam bot has dominated the conversation — if you can call it that. Open the ...

Even before Elon Musk lit a match under a pile of money and agreed to buy Twitter for $54.20 per share last April, he was talking a lot about bots. “If our twitter bid succeeds, we will defeat the ...

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Some users in the crypto Twitter space are already reporting a reduction in the number of scam bots after Elon Musk’s latest changes to the social media platform. Elon Musk's latest salvo in his war ...

So something I have been wondering is if it is even possible to detect all bots on Twitter now. The data they have access to all seems very possible to fake for a reasonably sophisticated bot. At some ...

Mark Zuckerberg’s Twitter alternative, Instagram Threads, has been forced to implement rate limits in response to a growing number of reports citing spam attacks and crypto-shilling bots. Instagram ...

Last year, Elon Musk promised "to defeat the spam bots or die trying." So far, he doesn't appear to have made much progress. The Wall Street Journal reported this week that the level of bot activity ...