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Re:Battling Fake Accounts, Twitter to Slash Millions of Foll... by wskinner on Wednesday July 11, 2018 @03:36PM (#17509687)
It's not a simple problem. It's a complex economic calculation with at least a few variables where the false positive rate directly impacts the bottom line as well as customer happiness, and the battleground is constantly changing as spammers get more advanced over time.
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Re:Battling Fake Accounts, Twitter to Slash Millions of Foll... by matchbok on Wednesday July 11, 2018 @10:38PM (#17511775)
Force real human verification for real accounts, and then create a bot/computer/AI account for the bots that people actually use. Human verification is a solved problem for the most part.
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