What does it mean “integrity“On Twitter? Reply: try to prevent conversations from being “corrupted” and manipulated. Consequently, make sure that users tap into reliable and verified information and that i profiles are verified, which are also reliable and trustworthy. Nice challenge, which to tell the truth the platform has struggled to achieve for years. As well as that – titanic – of reclaim the social network from bots that, explains the group during a private event, people often misunderstand. “A bot is nothing more than an automated user, nothing more or less. And not all bots are bad“Explain by the company in the sights of Elon Musk, who has tipped the scales for the success of his purchase transaction worth over 40 billion euros. It is no coincidence that since last September – and then since last February at a global level – the “good bots”, Which for example relaunch verified news or updates in real time, are identified by a specific label. But certainly not enough.
The board
What are Twitter bots and why their number is so important to Musk
by Arcangelo Rociola
In short, Bot is a type of account, spam is an attitude, they add from Twitter trying to shed the light on the complexity of a phenomenon that Musk’s somewhat naïve words may have amplified and misunderstood in the general public. Within spam there is also a distinction between sophisticated campaigns – such as those set up by Russian disinformation centers – or commercial bots that target fraud or other types of low-cost, fast-monetizing commercial actions.
He reached 100 million followers of Musk
by Riccardo Luna
In general, for Twitter, fighting platform manipulation means fighting it content spamthe account fake (created for this purpose o rubati from the unconscious user) l’artificial amplification (pumping tweets in an automated way, for example with likes and shares, to give them a relevance that would not collect), the coordinated manipulation with multiple accounts orchestrated by the same person and finally theabuse of some features of the platform such as lists or reporting functions. In short, the daily war is articulated: it goes much beyond the simple fight against bots, which are not even all harmful. Reducing everything to “how many bots are there on Twitter”, the platform experts seem to say, does not do justice to the hard work that the group does every day to contain the damage as much as possible.
Every day, for example, Twitter automatically removes over a million accounts that spread spam during or shortly after their opening. Many millions more blocks of them every week waiting for a verification that verifies the presence of a human being in flesh and blood behind him, also exploiting other types of information about that account (IP address, geolocation, behavior in terms of publications and so on). In the first six months of this year it happened 130 million times.
The analysis
Gedi-Stardust: so the kids are changing the information
by Alessio Balbi
On the other hand, spam campaigns are strongly linked to what is happening in the world and tend to increase, explains the San Francisco platform during the reserved event, on the occasion of elections, major global events and so on. This means, however, that among the accounts reported by users, those who practice spam are very few, less than 5% on a quarterly basis. Well below the 20% circulated in recent months and which has even given rise to a social squabble – let’s even say a horrid replica of the Tesla entrepreneur – between Musk and the current CEO, Parag Agrawal. According to the group, very interested at this stage in balancing the stern narrative of an aspiring buyer instrumentally dissatisfied with the job and looking for one discount on the purchase price of 44 billion dollars, there is no external company – the allusion is for example to V.ai, a group specialized in AI, which recently made estimates on the presence of bot accounts – that can calculate and intervene better than Twitter on this front, considered really complex to deal with.