The crypto community reports a sharp decline in the number of responses to their posts from bots following Elon Musk’s most recent attack on cryptocurrency spam bots on Twitter.
The CEO of Twitter hinted that “bots are in for a surprise tomorrow” in a post on December 11. He later added that they’ve identified a small group of individuals who are responsible for a large number of bot/troll accounts, and the platform will be blocking the IP addresses of “known bad actors.”
He continued by saying that even though con artists may use other strategies to get around the IP address block, Twitter will Shut them down as soon as they show up.
The co-creator of the meme coin Dogecoin (DOGE), Billy Markus, who goes by the pseudonym Shibetoshi Nakamoto, wrote to Musk on December 11 saying, he made a test post, and instead of seeing 50 bot replies he only saw one much progress.
Other users went to test Musk’s most recent adjustments. In order to determine how many bots would respond to the post, PlanB, a Bitcoin (BTC) analyst and investor, posted a chart. As of the time of writing, no comments from bots have appeared.
While Twitter seems to be marginally better to use lately, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin added, he couldn’t tell if there had been a decrease in bots because of Musk. He has no idea how to separate Elon’s work from crypto-winter from his brain imagining changes that aren’t actually there.
Some claim that the bot responses still appear on posts, but the platform quickly deletes them.
After taking over as CEO of Twitter in October, Musk saw the elimination of Twitter spam and scam bots as one of his top priorities.
Musk also made a passing mention in his most recent post that the company plans to sue Twitter scammers in the future, but he provided no further information.
