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Sure. But I would expect bot operators to have a vast array of accounts. If you have 250,000 accounts and you paid for a blue checkmark for 10,000 of those accounts. That would be $70,000 per month.
Idk, but intuitively I would think that the profits they get are spread over a great number of accounts.
If 98% of your spam earned income comes from a single account, that would make you very vulnerable to losing all of your income if that single account is banned.
If on the other hand, 80% of your income comes from 10,000 accounts then it doesn’t matter if 1 or 10 or 100 or 1,000 of those accounts get banned. You’ll still have the income from the remaining 9,999 or 9,990 or 9,900 or 9,000 accounts. And you’ll make a bunch of new accounts all the time so that for all of those account of yours that are banned it’s not really significantly reducing the total number of accounts under your control either.
Of course, I could be wrong and it could be that they have a handful of accounts that make all of the income and all of the other accounts only serve to fake engagement for those few accounts so that those few accounts get boosted and seen by people. I’m not in the spam making “business” so I don’t know how it actually works.
The surprising thing is that apparently the bot operators make more than $8 _per account_ on average, which is surprising to me.
Many of these services also allow spending limits to be set on these cards on a per-card basis — which in practice allows the defrauding of any postpaid service, by limiting each card to spend just enough for the initial card verification, and then denying the actual postpaid charges when they come. (Then you close the acct, and open a new one with a new name + card.)
To combat this, we’ve resorted to using grey-market(!) “BIN lists” to determine what CCN prefixes (BINs) are used by the banks backing these non-KYCed online wallets, and just blacklisting all of them. Somehow, I doubt bigcorps are doing the same.
Occams Razor…
The frequency...the inability to stop it after 2 months...
The weirdest thing is they seem to get some special treatment that renders them invisible, yet, not prevent them from being posted altogether, or have any impact on the account itself.
It's not even particularly productive spam. It's like watching someone thumb their noise in front of a steamroller. Makes no sense.
The original intention was to buy Twitter so Musk would be the most popular man in the world, his comedy would be appreciated by a billion followers soon, and as a nice bonus they’d buy whatever crypto he decided to pump. The Twitter buyout was maybe the very last major business decision executed entirely on 2021 moon logic.
You know, a part of me hopes he makes it to Mars in my lifetime and just proceeds to take over the planet, running an alternative society there. Planet Musk: The Reality Show™ would be quite the thing to watch... from 140 million miles away.
I always did wonder if the Musk Dogs species from Pushing Ice - who trick the colonists into blowing up their planet or something along those lines - was a vague dig at Musk...
Lol'ing at its accuracy, and it being obvious once you hear it, but something that didn't cross my mind until now. Even the constant rolling firings at BigCos: I find it hard to believe companies would have cut as quickly and aggressively and continually as they did without Musk's...housecleaning?...making them look reasonable in comparison.
For a moment, I'd forgotten that was a thing Musk actually did. I got so used to bots impersonating him pumping cryptocurrencies, my memories had rewritten the times he did do it himself into more impersonators doing it instead.
I regularly get 100-200 view, 10-60 second cat videos alongside long form content.
If you need some training "data" try Cookie the Calico.
'unhook' and 'hide youtube shorts' are the main ingredients.
For lack of a better term to describe it if you watch enough “normie” videos it seems to start showing you anything with a high view count. Watch 100 silly cat videos and it will start recommending you celebrities and football and ofc naked girls. YMMV but that’s what I’ve seen. Worse if you aren’t logged in.
At least it’s better than Instagram where softcore porn is the rule rather than the exception