The most ironic part is that Twitter will show the spam/scams, but hide other replies, from real people, that Twitter thinks are mean.
You only have to mention NFTs, even in a negative light, and you generally get drive-by likes from verified NFT-related accounts, and if you check their 'Likes', they've liked dozens more tweets since yours. The idea being to draw attention to itself with a certain demographic. Twitter has its own option to report people for this exact behavior.
Likewise, the number of QRTs in replies to things boggles the mind.
Play stupid games win stupid prizes?
Same here. I suppose I could go find spam if I start clicking on every Tweet from a high-profile person and scroll to the bottom of the comments, but the spam isn't jumping out at me on a regular basis.
I suspect some people have a very low tolerance for any spam appearing anywhere on a platform, and will get easily triggered whenever it crosses their experience in any way. If you're consuming 100s or 1000s of Tweets and responses in a sitting and scrolling to the bottom of threads, eventually you're going to see something spam-like.
Pretty weird how multiple people refuse to believe something can be a problem even though they can't see it.
There’s a ton of stuff like this.
The last spam I got was where someone tagged me in some bullshit NFT giveaway, where entrants had to tag 5 of their "friends" to qualify. Definitely spam, but at a cursory glance, it was human-generated rather than bot spam.
I don't get much other spam though.
Edit: oh yeah, on a Japanese account I have I get the odd mass DM offering scam sex/easy money/whatever. I've also noticed a trickle of obvious spam account followers there (it's always "girls" with sexy profile pics and a profile blurb that invariably mentions adding her on LINE, and ~zero followers except other bots and just a couple tweets). Spam is very different depending on the market.
Everyone I follow is computer science or software engineering focused though, so maybe Twitter's algorithm can easily recognize my preference and fill my timeline with related tweets.
Maybe someone who follows a more diverse set of interests will get more diverse tweets in their timeline, more likely to include spam.
Just a guess, dunno for sure.
Follow any normal non-celebrity account that isn't talking about the latest moneymaker and you'll find less spam.
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What if I want to see what the algorithm is hiding from me? If there are many replies it's time consuming to find out.