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I wish they had used unique addresses for each tweet they sent out.

It would have been fascinating to see which which account had the best conversion rate.

I didnt even know I wanted to know this. My guess is between Jeff and Bill. They're the leading ones who can afford giving twice the money back ;)

Elon Musk can afford it and is the only one known to tweet crazy stuff.

I'd assume one closer to crypto, probably Elon Musk or Coinbase.

Because the audience needs to know how to quickly send BTC.

In addition, it's a running joke on Elon Musk's feed anyway where people constantly to do this using fake accounts of his.

So, maybe some thought today Musk is having it and finally doing it for real! If there is a person to run such a campaign for real, it would be him - so it could even be plausible.

> "Because the audience needs to know how to quickly send BTC."

Yep, I agree with this.While mine guess was purely on "amount of money available to give", your speculation seems more on point.

That they target Elon Musk followers already suggests that it's a rich vein for scammers.

> a running joke on Elon Musk's feed anyway where people constantly to do this using fake accounts of his.

How does twitter allow this spam?

That's a good question - there was a time, not too long ago where every single tweet of Musk was spammed with BTC giveaways.

They don't, but the spammers have become more sophisticated over time. They use Cyrillic letters that look like Latin letters, they hack old unused accounts (sometimes verified ones), they post the spam as a second-level answer, they use images instead of tweeting text, they have started adding noise and various transforms to the images to make them harder to automatically classify as spam, and they probably have many more tricks up their sleeves. Fighting against spam is hard.

Shocking that they don't take even basic precautions like image hashing to cut down on this.

I think you’re wrong, everyone knows that Bezos would never do a “I have decided to give back to my community” of any kind. :P

This has intensely piqued my curiosity.

Oh wow that would have bee interesting. My guess would be Elon (or Kanye).

I know one person who actually sent money to Elon – "it seemed like something he'd do". Seems likely Elon's followers have the highest rate of people who understand crypto, combined with the fact that he's more likely to do something like this than, say, Joe Biden.

> Seems likely Elon's followers have the highest rate of people who understand crypto

Even worse, I'd say his followers probably have enough understanding of crypto to be able to send him money, but not enough understanding or skepticism to realize it's a scam.

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