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Biggest Twitter shareholder Elon Musk has referred to crypto spam bots as the single most annoying issue on Twitter
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Twitter, now known as X, is testing a $1 subscription fee for new users in New Zealand and the Philippines to combat bots and spam, while also increasing revenue. The post X (Twitter) to Test Charging $1 in Battle Against Spam & Scam Bots appeared first on BeInCrypto.
2023-10-18 08:25 | |
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At times, Twitter bots accounted for roughly half of all "chatter" on the platform for six FTX-listed altcoins.
2023-8-3 13:58 | |
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Data scientist Geoff Golberg talks about his quest to expose Twitter bots, receiving death threats from the XRP Army, and how to identify fake Twitter accounts.
2019-5-8 21:06 | |
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Researchers from Duo Security, an authentication services company owned by Cisco Systems, have published a blog post that explains how to methodically identify “amplification bots. ” These are defined as automated Twitter accounts that purely exist to artificially amplify the reach of content through retweets and likes.
2018-12-11 17:00 | |
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Tesla creator Elon Musk sought help eradicating Twitter’s infamous bots from an unlikely source September 16, publicly asking Dogecoin founder Jackson Palmer for help. Palmer: Twitter ‘Should Automate’ Botnet Fix In an exchange Sunday, Palmer confirmed he had given code to Musk in order to prevent bots posting fake giveaway advertisements below his genuine tweets.
2018-9-17 23:00 | |
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Crypto Pet Peeves — Twitter Scam Bots Ethereum giveaway scam bots are the pet peeve of any cryptocurrency Twitter user, with these malicious accounts littering the comment sections of tweets. Nearly everyone in this nascent community has seen them, but for those who don’t know what these bots are, here’s a bit of an explanation.
2018-8-15 05:19 | |
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Researchers at Duo Labs have discovered that Twitter is home to at least 15,000 scam bots and have published their findings in a new report. Between May and July of 2018, staff members observed, collected and analyzed nearly 90 million public Twitter accounts that had released over 500 million tweets.
2018-8-9 20:51 | |
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A Duo Security report raises the alarm on a huge botnet broadcasting fake cryptocurrency giveaways on Twitter.
2018-8-8 11:43 | |
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On August 6, 2018, two security researchers at Duo Security who were studying Twitter automation patterns, stumbled upon a vast network of Twitter bot accounts promoting crypto fraud. The sophisticated network was accidentally discovered while the researchers were looking into how to create a methodology for accurately identifying Twitter bots.
2018-8-8 00:00 | |
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Researchers found a ramified network of bots promoting cryptocurrency fraudulent schemes in the social network. The most popular way to cheat investors is so called giveaways of coins.
2018-8-7 21:13 | |
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Cryptocurrency–One of the industry’s worst proponents is a pervasive, network of scam bots that has quickly come to litter the space of Twitter. While most social media users have become accustomed to the incessant “Ethereum giveaway” scams that adorn the profile of any crypto industry figure, the problem has begun to bleed over into other […] The post Crypto Twitter Bots Have Become Worse than Anyone Could Have Imagined appeared first on Ethereum World News.
2018-8-7 06:22 | |
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New research finds a crypto-related Twitter scam botnet of at least 15,000 bots spreading fake giveaways
2018-8-7 22:00 | |
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Fortune reports how Bitmain pulled in a profit of $1. 1 billion in Q1 of 2018 alone. Winning the Battle Against Twitter Bots Twitter bots, which have plagued the network all year, imitating influencers and conning the gullible out of their ether, appear to be waning.
2018-7-31 22:47 | |
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In today’s edition of Bitcoin in Brief it seems that Twitter is starting to get a grip on the impersonator bots that have dogged the platform all year. We’ve also got news of a crypto meetup that’s only for sceptics, and it turns out that Bitmain is even richer than anyone thought.
2018-7-31 14:15 | |
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In this week’s daily editions of Bitcoin in Brief, we reported about Twitter blocking ETH scambots mimicking Elon Musk, a US presidential candidate who accepts crypto donations, the expected arrival of a ‘herd of institutional investors’ and much more.
2018-7-29 12:40 | |
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Also read: Skrill Launches Crypto Trade, Luxury Market Reaches $100M Transactions Twitter Blocking Bots Imitating Musk Twitter is trying a new strategy to address the issue with the numerous crypto scammers on the social network.
2018-7-27 16:40 | |
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Twitter finally takes a decisive step towards eliminating cryptocurrency scams on its platform, but only does so by blocking one person's name from being used.
2018-7-27 16:21 | |
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In Friday’s edition of The Daily, Twitter has taken measures against crypto scammers imitating the profile of Tesla’s CEO Elon Musk and a Dutch court has sentenced the operators of the Coinvault ransomware.
2018-7-27 14:25 | |
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If the crypto-sphere were an old, stately home, Twitter scambots would be the antique mold; part of the house for almost as long as it existed. The bots pose as famous users and following a post, reply underneath that they’re doing some sort of improbable cryptocurrency giveaway.
2018-7-26 19:14 | |
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Look out everyone, Blockchain technology is here to save Twitter! Yes, it really is. Everyone who follows social media trends constantly hears of the term Fake news. This problem is literally a cancer to Twitter because of how its working interface is designed.
2018-7-26 00:59 | |
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Twitter have designed a genius plan to help reduce the number of cryptocurrency scams circulating the Twitter sphere. Well, we say genius but actually, we can’t help but question who came up with this idea… According to reports, Twitter is disabling any Twitter accounts that are unverified and use the display name ‘Elon Musk’.
2018-7-25 16:30 | |
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In an effort to curb the cryptocurrency “giveaway” scam epidemic, Twitter will lock your account if you are not verified and change you display name to Elon Musk. Crypto-scammers and blockchain bandits are on the rise, and they will try anything to swindle unwitting victims into sending or wiring them funds – including pretending to be Musk himself.
2018-7-25 14:52 | |
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On 19th July, Vitalik Buterin, the Co-Founder of Ethereum, tweeted about the prevalent bots’ intrusion on Twitter handles related to cryptocurrency. He basically referred to the feature present in almost all Ethereum giveaway pages that have a slider with the caption ‘Left Ethereum’.
2018-7-21 23:25 | |
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A data expert by the name of Hang Do Thi Duc recently exposed a problem with Venmo’s privacy settings, they’re public by default. For those who didn’t know that, Hang’s the angel on your shoulder trying to keep you safe.
2018-7-20 23:03 | |
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Crypto scam bots have become a common sight in the Twitter landscape, with many premier cryptocurrency personalities seeing an influx of fraudulent accounts commenting on their posts. This has become such a large problem that well-known cryptocurrency figures, like Binance’s CEO and Charlie Shrem, have signed an “open letter” calling for these scams to end.
2018-7-19 15:30 | |
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According to reports the social media platform Twitter has been deleting millions of fraudulent accounts per day, and stated during the first week of July that it suspended more than 70 million accounts throughout May and June.
2018-7-17 00:55 | |
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Ethereum (ETH)–In a momentous occasion for all of cryptocurrency, particularly Ethereum, the founder of Tesla and SpaceX Elon Musk made his first reference to the second overall cryptocurrency by market capitalization…in the form of a nod to the endless crypto scam bots that have suffocated Twitter.
2018-7-11 20:52 | |
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Musk has expressed some curiousness over the mad skills of Ethereum scam bots creator, while Vitalik Buterin asked Jack Dorsey to solve this issue. In one of the recent trends, cryptocurrency scam bots have been targeting accounts of high-profile individuals outside the crypto community.
2018-7-11 13:10 | |
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Musk has expressed some curiousness over the mad skills of Ethereum scam bots creator, while Vitalik Buterin asked Jack Dorsey to solve this issue. The post Ethereum Scam Bots on Twitter Draws Attention of Elon Musk appeared first on CoinSpeaker.
2018-7-11 11:05 | |
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Elon Musk has called out Twitter scam bots that impersonate famous people’s accounts to steal crypto from unsuspecting users
2018-7-11 00:02 | |
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Twitter scam bots are still a pervasive problem in the Twitter crypto-sphere, with almost every crypto-influencers’ posts being followed immediately with a comment offering “send 0. 5 ETH to get 5 ETH” giveaways, with names and pictures similar to the influencers’.
2018-7-6 09:34 | |
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