Elon Musk, who bought Twitter earlier this year, has been very vocal about his goal of getting rid of crypto bods from the microblogging platform. Musk tweeted a warning over the weekend aimed at the bots swarming the social networking app. Soon after, industry members, including Dogecoin co-founder Billy Markus, confirmed that bot activity on Twitter dropped after Musk’s warning. Musk wants to remove bots from Twitter, where a range of suspicious and potentially dangerous scam threats are putting millions of people at financial risk.
musk has claimed that a number of people are running bots and troll accounts on Twitter and their identified IP address will soon be targeted by the Twitter team.
That’s my guess: small numbers of humans with large bot/troll armies. We are shutting down the IP addresses of known malicious actors today. Should have happened long ago.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 11, 2022
Markus from Dogecoinconducted tests with the Bitcoin analyst, known as PlanB on Twitter, to verify that the bot army would shut down after Musk’s warning.
They also congratulated Tesla and SpaceX CEO on progress on his anti-bot plans.
I made a test post and instead of seeing 50 bot responses, I only saw one
a lot of progress, a lot of hype
— Shibetoshi Nakamoto (@BillyM2k) December 11, 2022
In May crypto intelligence agency LunarCrush claims that spam on Twitter has increased by 1,374 percent in the last three years.
Back in August, a cyber security analyst by the name of “Serpent” tweeted to his followers that the crypto community on Twitter was very unsafe.
acc Linebad actors pretended to help victims of phishing scam and later use the “crypto recovery scam” technique to further deceive them. The scammers claim to be blockchain developers and demand a fee for providing a smart contract to recover stolen funds before charging and fleeing.
Under these circumstances, Musk has pledged to delete bot accounts as soon as they are identified.
“Twitter will also begin tracking scammers around the world,” the multi-billionaire noted.
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