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Re:Twitter board adopts poison pill after Musk’s $43B bid to... by viraptor on Saturday April 16, 2022 @06:34AM (#31051252)
My thesis is: if they put in minimal effort into automation, then metamask spam would be trivial to block. Since we know of the metamask spam for months (years?), it means there was no effort. I could be wrong, but I'll stick to the most obvious explanation.
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Re:Twitter board adopts poison pill after Musk’s $43B bid to... by ben_w on Saturday April 16, 2022 @09:38AM (#31052220)
Given I had to Google "metamask" to understand your comment, I’m not sure it’s as widespread as I think you think it is.
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Re:Twitter board adopts poison pill after Musk’s $43B bid to... by viraptor on Saturday April 16, 2022 @09:51AM (#31052315)
It's been going on for months - if you're not aware of this it doesn't mean it's not widespread. If you tweet "metamask problem", you'll get a number of bots immediately responding with Google forms links for "metamask support". Yes, it's very widespread and extremely obvious. Both fake support accounts https://twitter.com/metamesksuport/with_replies (I can find at least 10 more "support" accounts from a basic search) and helpful randos https://twitter.com/ij851227/status/1515302472079847425

It's been tweeted by multiple security people at various Twitter engineers already and raised in lots of ways. They know and don't care. Meantime, real people lose their money - otherwise nobody would waste their time to post the scam.

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