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Re:Update: Russian Interference in 2016 US Election, Bots, a... by BinaryIdiot on Thursday September 28, 2017 @04:38PM (#15360523)
> On average, our automated systems catch more than 3.2 million suspicious accounts globally per week — more than double the amount we detected this time last year.

Holy crap that is a lot of suspicious accounts!

It's impossible to find political conversation on twitter without multiple accounts named like `HouseWifeXX937` (always something with weird characters then numbers at the end) in the middle of the conversations and rarely reply like you would expect a real person to do. Sometimes I wonder if I'm in a conversation entirely with bots and it gets depressing; why would I even want to bother using Twitter beyond talking with people I know are people?

Nowadays I mostly ignore any strangers.

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Re:Update: Russian Interference in 2016 US Election, Bots, a... by Cleisthenes on Thursday September 28, 2017 @05:27PM (#15360876)
> Nowadays I mostly ignore any strangers.

Isn't that one of the political goals? To undermine your trust of society (i.e. strangers)?

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Re:Update: Russian Interference in 2016 US Election, Bots, a... by BinaryIdiot on Thursday September 28, 2017 @06:18PM (#15361235)
You're exactly right and yet I don't really know how to fix it. Perhaps if Twitter opened up the verification process to anyone (free or paid) then I could limit to only those who are verified so I know I'm most likely talking with a real person.

Still, bots will get through the cracks but that has to be better than what is there, today. Right?

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Re:Update: Russian Interference in 2016 US Election, Bots, a... by raverbashing on Thursday September 28, 2017 @05:10PM (#15360749)
Maybe there should be a stronger proof-of-work for creating an account on twitter
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Re:Update: Russian Interference in 2016 US Election, Bots, a... by zaat on Thursday September 28, 2017 @05:47PM (#15361022)
They managed to set the bar too low for the common spammer while keeping it too high for a common potential user.
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