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Seems like fighting bots is harder than he thought.

bots pay for blue checkmarks, and they'll pay to tweet too. twitter needs the money to stay afloat, and elon doesn't really have a reason to say no

his initial concern over bots was twofold: 1) he desperately needed a way to get out of a deal he made on ~vibes~ instead of due-diligence 2) elon was a mega-famous account. The #1 thing that impacts QoL for mega-famous accounts is a 24/7 firehose of bot mentions and replies

it's not that hard. he fired probably a lot of the people whose job it was to do that , and lack of imagination on his part.

A Red Queen's race is very hard. https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Red_Queen's_race

Does it really apply if you don't do the bare minimum? I wouldn't complain if they were fighting automated building of sophisticated account networks that guide you towards some hidden ad. But until they do a pattern match on the most popular spam words used every day, Red Queen is not an issue.

I have found that they are pretty reliably hidden behind the "unsafe replies" section much of the time, so that are clearly able to identify most of them but are unwilling to actually ban them.

yeah that is the purpose of "show more". It is designed to hide spam

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