Cryptocurrency spam bots are silent, and Musk promises to bring scammers to justice

Elon Musk's latest salvo in his war against Twitter spammer bots appears to have yielded real results:The crypto community is reporting a significant drop in the number of bots responding to their messages. In a Dec. 11 post, Twitter's CEO hinted that“a surprise awaits the bots tomorrow”, and later explained that they had discovered a smallthe number of people behind a large number of bot/troll accounts and the platform will shut down the IP addresses of “known bad actors” A surprise awaits the bots tomorrow.

He then explained that although scammers maytry to use other methods to bypass IP blocking, Twitter will “close them as soon as they appear” Shibetoshi Nakamoto, pseudonym of Billy Marcus, one of the creators of the meme coinDogecoin (DOGE), Musk said in a Dec. 11 post:“I made a test post and instead of 50 bot responses I saw only one, which advanced the matter very much, very much” Other users also went to test Musk's latest changes. PlanB, a Bitcoin (BTC) analyst and investor, posted a chart to see how many bots would respond. At the time of writing, there were no responses from bots in the comments. Just checking to see if the bots are really gone!”

Co-founderEthereumVitalik Buterin also noted that, although“Twitter *seems* to be a little better to use lately”he can't say whether the number of bots has decreased because of Musk. “I don't know how to separate what Elon did from crypto winter from my brain imagining changes that aren't actually happening”, – he said. Some have reported that bot replies still appear in messages, but are removed very quickly by the platform. Related: “Twitter will be doing a lot of stupid things in the coming months”: Elon Musk Spam and scam bots on Twitter have been a plague on the platform and were seen by Musk as one of his top priorities for Twitter after taking over as chief in October. In his latest post, Musk also hinted that the platform will aim to accept legal entities in the future.measures against scammers on Twitter, although he did not offer any additionaldetails. They will try to use other methods, but we stop them as soon as they appear. Twitter will also pursue scammers anywhere in the world. “Twitter will also pursue scammers anywhere on Earth”, – he said.