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Does Twitter have a "mass report" feature for reporting fake/bot accounts? Creating one off reports is too cumbersome and most users ignore rather than report.

There are obvious challenges to a mass reporting tool, and you can't put the same weight of a report of mass spam as a regular report. But I think if you used two different pipelines, it would be fairly easy for twitter to verify and at least delete all similar accounts (low follower/tweet counts). Much more quickly than relying on the public to individually report each account for spam.

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Not that I'm aware of. I sometimes use the free-form comment on the report to list the other accounts in a group, or include a link to a thread describing the network if there are a lot of accounts.

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May 2, 2023·edited May 2, 2023Liked by Conspirador Norteño

Right, makes sense, but not nearly as scalable as it needs to be.

I was reading through some of your old posts and was kind of shocked how easy it was for you to identify mass bot nets. I guess I assumed Twitter at least of a team using similar methodologies to ban accounts internally.

Anyways, I just found you on twitter and I love your content (because of my special hate for grifter Rebekah Jones). I'm a dev I'm excited to experiment with some of your methods.

Keep on doing what you're doing my man. I'm a big fan!

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I'm just exceptionally jaded with Twitter I've deactivated my account. I'm trying to be more active here and discovering valuable newsletters to subscribe to. I'm not saying Substack is a perfect replacement or anything, and I don't expect I'll be posting much on Notes either, but it's a whole lot less noisy here.

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CBouzy....

Who is protected by twitter, pre and post-EM takeover

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