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Re:Hackers Are So Fed Up with Twitter Bots They’re Hunting T... by CM30 on Sunday March 18, 2018 @04:59PM (#16614299)
I suspect their big problem is more that their site is too big for the moderation staff they have at the moment. Identifying bots is easy for people sure, but it's hard to automate with AI and hiring people to proactively hunt out and shut down bots is expensive.

Of course, the fact doing it too well hurts the stats doesn't help either.

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Re:Hackers Are So Fed Up with Twitter Bots They’re Hunting T... by heylook on Sunday March 18, 2018 @10:14PM (#16615774)
> it's hard to automate with AI

I disagree. At least it shouldn't be that hard for a company with Twitter's level of engineering and data science sophistication, and yes, I do realize that most of their best technical talent is long gone.

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Re:Hackers Are So Fed Up with Twitter Bots They’re Hunting T... by jonathankoren on Sunday March 18, 2018 @10:23PM (#16615802)
> it’s hard to automate with AI

While nothing is a panacea, there’s little evidence that Twitter is doing even the bare minimum.

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