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PG has experience in this space, remember. He played a role in helping detect and prevent spam back in the day.

https://www.infoworld.com/article/2674702/techology-business...

But surely that experience being 20 years ago makes it, at best, academic? Should we act like a 20 year old experience makes someone an expert or just another person with an opinion on the internet?

I cynically wonder how much credibility we give this tweet is due to the author having 1) a huge following and 2) lots and lots of money. And of course 3) it being posted on the forum for the company they founded.

This is a pretty insulting opinion to hold. It's not like the spam messages have gotten infinitely more complex over the last 20 years, or that someone who is a competent programmer just completely forgot everything that they know about a subject.

Also, the spam is so blatant and egregious and repetitive, as pg points out. It doesn't even take an expert to recognize Twitter's doing a strangely awful job at it.

both opinions can be true. graham is a self important gas bag _and_ twitter doesn't care about spam

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