Twitter Still Can't Keep Up with Its Flood of Junk Accounts, Study Finds

Re:Twitter Still Can't Keep Up with Its Flood of Junk Accoun... by adriveatrain on Friday February 08, 2019 @02:20PM (#19117708)

Some of Twitter's users are more equal than others when it comes to bans. I don't think they are concerned about blowback from false positives from spam accounts.

e.g.

"Learn to code" was tweeted at me by a sketchy account. I reported it as abusive behavior as part of targeted harassment. Twitter suspended the account within 20 minutes.

Journalists if they tweet "learn to code" at you don't stay silent, take a moment to report it. https://t.co/RXgqqV2ptw

— Ben Popken (@bpopken) February 1, 2019

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Re:Twitter Still Can't Keep Up with Its Flood of Junk Accoun... by untog on Friday February 08, 2019 @05:42PM (#19119383)

I wouldn't consider that a typical example given that the whole "learn to code" thing was a targeted harassment campaign. Not difficult to imagine that in that timeframe Twitter had prioritised investigating and banning users who were participating in it.

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Re:Twitter Still Can't Keep Up with Its Flood of Junk Accoun... by adriveatrain on Saturday February 09, 2019 @08:32AM (#19122147)

They didn't extend such protections to schoolchild Nick Sandmann

"#MAGAkids go screaming, hats first, into the woodchipper"

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Re:Twitter Still Can't Keep Up with Its Flood of Junk Accoun... by untog on Saturday February 09, 2019 @09:55AM (#19122562)

Probably because there was no coordinated harassment campaign, and he isn't even on Twitter. But sure, keep up the false equivalence.

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Re:Twitter Still Can't Keep Up with Its Flood of Junk Accoun... by adriveatrain on Saturday February 09, 2019 @10:34AM (#19122755)

Who was co-ordinating the tweeting of "Learn to code" at Ben Popken?

Perhaps I can put it another way

"I don’t believe that we can afford to take a neutral stance anymore. I don’t believe that we should optimize for neutrality." - Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey Feb 5 2019

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Re:Twitter Still Can't Keep Up with Its Flood of Junk Accoun... by untog on Saturday February 09, 2019 @07:38PM (#19125685)

4chan. I mean, the threads are all public, it seems exceptionally stupid to claim it wasn't happening.

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Re:Twitter Still Can't Keep Up with Its Flood of Junk Accoun... by adriveatrain on Sunday February 10, 2019 @09:31AM (#19127875)

What would you call this highly publicised and still present Tweet from CNN presenter, Kathy Griffin, I wonder [1]

> Name these kids. I want NAMES. Shame them. If you think these fuckers wouldn’t dox you in a heartbeat, think again.

[1] https://twitter.com/kathygriffin/status/1086927762634399744

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Re:Twitter Still Can't Keep Up with Its Flood of Junk Accoun... by untog on Sunday February 10, 2019 @10:04AM (#19128014)

I would call it a single abusive tweet. Not a coordinated campaign, not specifically targeted at any Twitter user.

This isn't complex.

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Re:Twitter Still Can't Keep Up with Its Flood of Junk Accoun... by adriveatrain on Monday February 11, 2019 @03:41AM (#19132910)

Suggesting people tweet "learn to code" at journalists wasn't specifically targeting Ben Popken

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Re:Twitter Still Can't Keep Up with Its Flood of Junk Accoun... by adriveatrain on Sunday February 10, 2019 @01:11AM (#19126581)

And he got 1 response.

Not very effective.

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Re:Twitter Still Can't Keep Up with Its Flood of Junk Accoun... by pacerwpg on Friday February 08, 2019 @05:23PM (#19119251)

It could also be that accounts that take part in harassment/harassment adjacent behavior may already have a few strikes against them for similar things.

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