Crypto spam bots go silent while Musk promises to prosecute scammers

Elon Musk's latest salvo successful his warfare against crypto spam bots connected Twitter appears to person made immoderate existent impact, with the crypto assemblage reporting a immense simplification successful the fig of responses connected their posts from bots. 

In a Dec. 11 post, the Twitter CEO hinted that “bots are successful for a astonishment tomorrow” and aboriginal explained that they've recovered a tiny fig of radical down a ample fig of bot/troll accounts and that the level volition beryllium shutting down IP addresses of “known atrocious actors.”

The bots are successful for a astonishment tomorrow

He past followed up by explaining that while scammers mightiness try different methods to circumvent the IP code block, Twitter volition besides beryllium “Shutting them down arsenic soon arsenic they amusement up.”

Shibetoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonym of Billy Markus, co-creator of meme coin Dogecoin (DOGE), told Musk successful a Dec. 11 post, “I made a trial station and alternatively of seeing 50 bot replies I lone saw 1 overmuch progress, precise hype.”

Other users besides went to trial Musk’s latest changes. PlanB, a Bitcoin (BTC) analyst and capitalist posted a illustration to spot however galore bots would reply to the post. At the clip of writing, nary responses from bots person shown up successful the comments. 

Just investigating if the bots are truly gone! pic.twitter.com/2v7BU3xMfu

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin besides noted that portion “Twitter *seems* to beryllium marginally amended to usage lately,” helium couldn’t archer if determination had been a simplification successful bots owed to Musk.

“No thought however to abstracted isolated worldly Elon did vs crypto-winter vs my encephalon imagining changes that aren't really there," helium said.

Some person reported that the bot responses inactive amusement up connected posts, but are precise rapidly removed by the platform. 

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Twitter spam and scam bots person been a plague connected the level and were seen by Musk arsenic 1 of his top priorities for Twitter aft taking the helm successful October.

In his latest post, Musk besides hinted that the level volition beryllium aiming to instrumentality ineligible enactment against scammers connected Twitter successful the future, though didn’t connection immoderate further details.

“Twitter volition besides beryllium moving to prosecute scammers anyplace connected Earth,” helium said.