Twitter Bots Lead NFT Influencers To Turn Off Replies Or Go Private

More and more NFT influencers are turning off replies or go private altogether. The number of Twitter bots attacking each post is absolutely insane, annoying is definitely an understatement. Bots run rampant on Twitter and on almost every social media platform, some NFT influencers just cannot take it anymore.

Enough Is Enough: Twitter Bots Edition

Artchick has turned off comments from people she is not following. However, she is confident that engagement will continue as she follows more than 10k people at the moment. ThreadGuy and Loopify have also made similar announcements to take their accounts private. Loopify seems to be back now, and the tweets are bot free so far.

Farokh is currently in the midst of serious discussions with someone in Twitter and they are looking into it. Nonetheless, he has also turned off the comments for now. He promises to actively follow more of his community members so that he can continue to engage with them. On the bright side, it does bring his followers and community closer together. Some of the people were celebrating the fact that they can still comment, having a strong sense of belonging.

These NFT influencers have had countless interesting tweets, where the respective communities often follow up with their own thoughts. The comment section in most social media platforms are one of the best places to engage with the community, exchanging ideas and insights. For most of us, it presents a platform to interact with others in the community, whether like-minded or otherwise. Removing this will most certainly suck out some oxygen from the space.

If you’re still wondering how to silence the bots in your account, do check out this step-by-step guide.

Dear Mr. Elon Musk, Can It Be Fixed?

As Elon Musk officially steps into the Twitter front office, clearing out Twitter spam bots remain one of his top priorities. Platforms that rely heavily on mobile apps such as Twitter and Instagram usually have a higher exposure to spam bots. This is because users need to update the apps themselves to get a new security patch. Contrary to websites that run on browsers, browsers can make security updates on behalf of the users at any given time.

Aside from making Twitter’s algorithms open source, making greater use of security tools such as reCAPTCHA might reduce Twitter bots. In addition, the machine learning algorithms need to be able to evolve as fast as the bots.

At the beginning of the month, Mark Cuban suggested to use Dogecoin to authenticate Twitter users. In this setting, everyone puts up 1 Doge to be able to post unlimited posts. If a user contests a post and it really is a spam, the contester will get the spammer’s Doge. But if it turns out to be legit, then the contesters will lose their Doge.

If these Twitter bots are not taken seriously, the platform can risk losing users for good. This is especially true for parties that fall prey to these spam bots, such as the myriad of fraudulent activities on the platform.