'Spam Bots and Why They Matter in Elon Musk's Twitter Deal' twitter bot
There are good bots and there are bad bots. The tech billionaire Elon Musk announced that he was terminating a $44 billion deal to buy Twitter. The reason, he said, was an ongoing disagreement over the number of spam-bot accounts on the platform. Now, the question of what constitutes a spam bot account, and how many currently exist on Twitter, is likely to be at the center of legal battles between Mr. Musk and Twitter over the fraught deal.
Bots, on the other hand, aren't typically on Twitter to engage in genuine conversation with people. Instead, they're on Twitter to accomplish a goal, which could be beneficial or harmful.On the positive side, there are automated bots that provide a service. For example, consumers may ask the stock bot @mrstockbot for a stock quote.
Another sort of bot is spam accounts, which might attempt to deceive people or sell them products. Musk recently referred to bitcoin bots as the "single most frustrating problem on Twitter." Some bitcoin bots will attempt to persuade users to send cryptocurrency to an online wallet in return for a larger prize, which is obviously unattainable.
Increasing the usage of security measures like reCAPTCHA might aid in the fight against spambots. Twitter may expand the usage of multifactor authentication, a sort of identity verification in which users must verify their identity and that they are human using a different form of communication, like phone or email. Additionally, the business could increase its use of machine learning algorithms that can detect spam bots based on their Twitter behavior.