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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.

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> "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.

> 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?

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.

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

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

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

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