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Re:Twitter board adopts poison pill after Musk’s $43B bid to... by outsb on Saturday April 16, 2022 @05:47AM (#31051049)
Spamming "$$$ $TSLA to the moon! Get latest tips on my free Discord bit.ly/ocozxc #TWTR #GOOG #AMC #GME $$$" thousands of times for days before suspension is hardly the hardest problem on the Internet

Heck, you could even just limit the number of hashtags in a single tweet (say, 2) and fix 95% of Twitter's spam problem without harming legitimate users in any way

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Re:Twitter board adopts poison pill after Musk’s $43B bid to... by aesthesia on Saturday April 16, 2022 @10:00AM (#31052380)
Uh, wouldn't spammers just...stop using lots of hashtags? Part of what makes the problem difficult is that spammers are agents who respond to the techniques you use to stop them.
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Re:Twitter board adopts poison pill after Musk’s $43B bid to... by ljm on Saturday April 16, 2022 @10:11AM (#31052464)
Supposing it really was that simple, 5% would still comprise a large number of tweets.
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