Re:Massive networks of fake accounts found on Twitter
by leephillips on Friday January 27, 2017 @05:21PM
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IP meaning internet protocol number? What about students on a campus network, where there may be hundreds coming from the same IP? And you are managing hundreds of different IPs for your Twitter accounts? How does that work?
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Re:Massive networks of fake accounts found on Twitter
by _pecl on Friday January 27, 2017 @05:24PM
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yes.
I'm not sure about all of the details; I'm sure there are a variety of indicators that go into spam score and once you tip the spam threshold you're banned. So I would guess that students on a school network do things well enough to stay safe, but if you have 1,000 bot accounts on the same IP it's just a matter of time before they're all gone.
So if you want to manage a network of fake accounts I try to use a proxy IP or VPN to connect to each account every time you connect to/with it. (Also clear cookies/cache, spoof the same device, etc.) I'm sure better programmers could work around this by compensating in other ways, but I'm not sure how.
Re:Massive networks of fake accounts found on Twitter
by leephillips on Friday January 27, 2017 @05:28PM
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OK. I guess you could spoof your IPs in the bot program if you don't care about seeing the reply, which for this application you probably don't.
Re:Massive networks of fake accounts found on Twitter
by spydum on Friday January 27, 2017 @05:37PM
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that isn't exactly how IP spoofing works: i'd argue for the most part, ip spoofing is just a DDoS hassle.
Its not very useful on a real service you intend to interact with (tcp/https require you to reply to those ip packets - it's not a fire and forget).