Buttcoin - The Crypto-Critical Comedy GODL Mine

If you want to get a sense of scale of the bot problem at #twitter, check this out what I found. TLDR: someone has a (malfunctioning) bot army that can give posts at least 64000 likes in an instant, without triggering any serious spam detection or bot removal. The problem is in this tweet: https://twitter.com/stretchmikep/status/1671942731571273729 A few things stand out: - when i first noticed this, the tweet was at 64k likes, 64k retweets and 2k views. Which, well, lol. - reading the context of the thread is even more amazing, since it is quite deep into a conversation, where all the previous tweets have 0 likes - Originally the tweet had 64k likes, now it has 63k. This suggests that some minor amount of spam removal happens - the account to which it happened seemed completely unfazed by this?? My guess is that a crypto spam network has a trigger to boost pro crypto tweets, and that it triggered on the 'long BTC' part. However, it probably malfunctioned at had the entire network boost the post, instead of just a few accounts for plausible deniability. So if you see high engagement numbers on twitter, remember that someone has the ability to add at least 64k likes to any tweet, without it being detected. If you can get away with doing it so blatantly, imagine how easy it is to get away with adding a few thousand likes to a post that is already gaining traction organically. 📎