Reg date proves nothing. Accounts can be shared, sold, or hacked.
> As we all know bots versus humans is an eternal arms race, not much new here.
Calls into question claims that there have been substantiative gains made in that arms race, though- which is the point of this sub-thread in the first place!
As I said I don't see spam on the site (other than these deep leaf node posts surfaceable only by pinpoint targeted searches which is not normal usage) so I think it's gotten a lot better. You so far haven't convinced me that it's worse, but you're free to question things.
The t-shirt monger scam is just one I've heard about secondhand. What really annoys me is I'm somehow stuck on a bot target list where every other tweet I make gets instantaneously hit with at least one like from an account that is clearly a bot. It's sufficiently annoying that I end up doing a dance where I report the account for spam, block it, and then delete and retweet the tweet just to get rid of the fake interaction. So I'm understandably miffed at the degradation of my twitter experience.
> As we all know bots versus humans is an eternal arms race, not much new here.
Calls into question claims that there have been substantiative gains made in that arms race, though- which is the point of this sub-thread in the first place!