So their fake user detection system is so f’d at this point that it detects genuine users as bots and bots as real people, lol.
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So their fake user detection system is so f’d at this point that it detects genuine users as bots and bots as real people, lol.
I have tried 10 times to delete my account, and it sends me in circles and won't let me delete it. I have not used that account in over three years.
Or just use https://xcancel.com/ for when you really need to use it.
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And I appealed twice and a real employee (apparently) wouldn't treat me like a real person and have the decency to answer any of my questions. It would seem to be by design.
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That's like me and the credit union. I tried to delete my account and they informed me they'll keep it around for six years in case I decide to reopen.
Oh yeah I deleted the app when he made it that heinous X logo. Now I only use it in the browser for…research. 🥸
That's how I feel about iCloud and the App Store. I recently read about a guy who had been banned from submitting apps to the app store *before he ever tried to do so* and they wouldn't tell him why or fix it
Well that's nonsense. Sounds like Jack is exactly the kind of person who makes Bluesky better by leaving it
X has more bots than ever. X booted me and wouldn’t do me the decency of answering any of my questions in my appeals beyond vague canned answers that are not in the least true. If they treated me like a human they’d quickly figure out they are in the wrong.
Literally every major account in the replies is inundated with the spammiest spam bots imaginable, including many auto-posters who are clearly using keyword triggered automated posting software and many such accounts never get banned. Crypto scam accounts probably make up double digit percentage of all accounts, and they’re posting nonsense day-in day-out, feigning interest in the topic and then you click info their account and it’s clear a bot account and still they don’t get canned.
I’m not entirely sure what the game is here, but someone high up in X is either creating the bots themselves, or at the least they want them to be there. There are many common bots that do similar things and it would be trivial to stop them spamming up everyone’s replies. Unsure who is benefitting from it, but it’s clear someone there wants them to be there.
Oh, and it’s over two years now and Elon still hasn’t opened up the algorithm for scrutiny as he promisedt. He also said he’d publish the list of words that if posting would encourage the algorithm to penalise your account. This he also never did. I’m not implying other platforms are much better. I’m criticising the platform I used. Reddit, for example, is also heavily botted.
Literally every major account in the replies is inundated with the spammiest spam bots imaginable, including many auto-posters who are clearly using keyword triggered automated posting software and many such accounts never get banned. Crypto scam accounts probably make up double digit percentage of all accounts, and they’re posting nonsense day-in day-out, feigning interest in the topic and then you click info their account and it’s clear a bot account and still they don’t get canned.
I’m not entirely sure what the game is here, but someone high up in X is either creating the bots themselves, or at the least they want them to be there. There are many common bots that do similar things and it would be trivial to stop them spamming up everyone’s replies. Unsure who is benefitting from it, but it’s clear someone there wants them to be there.
Oh, and it’s over two years now and Elon still hasn’t opened up the algorithm for scrutiny as he promisedt. He also said he’d publish the list of words that if posting would encourage the algorithm to penalise your account. This he also never did. I’m not implying other platforms are much better. I’m criticising the platform I used. Reddit, for example, is also heavily botted.
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This was especially noticeable to me back when the Queen in the UK died, felt like a lot of bots were searching for the word “republican” and jumping in to rant about “the dems”.
The queens death made UK republicanism a popular topic (republican as in wants to get rid of the monarchy and make the UK a republic). So many tweets I saw referencing British republicans were inundated with replies ranting about Hillary Clinton and Obama despite having absolutely nothing to do with the topic at hand.
Prior to that I’d seen similar happen when discussing British politics. We have a party literally called “The Conservative Party” and you’d get similar replies ranting about the American democrat party when you're trying to discuss the conservatives in the UK, if you replied to them to let them know you weren’t talking about American politics you’d receive another lengthy rant about the American democrats in the space of a second.
Three years ago. It's even worse now. Perhaps much worse. I'm estimating at least over 50% of accounts. Let's just say I don't believe it's only spam and small timers running these masse operations.