{"id":9114,"date":"2022-12-12T04:05:45","date_gmt":"2022-12-12T04:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptoheretostay.com\/?p=9114"},"modified":"2022-12-12T04:05:46","modified_gmt":"2022-12-12T04:05:46","slug":"crypto-spam-bots-go-silent-while-musk-promises-to-prosecute-scammers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cryptoheretostay.com\/?p=9114","title":{"rendered":"Crypto spam bots go silent while Musk promises to prosecute scammers"},"content":{"rendered":"<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\namzn_assoc_placement = \"adunit0\";\r\namzn_assoc_tracking_id = \"totafreearti-20\";\r\namzn_assoc_ad_mode = \"search\";\r\namzn_assoc_ad_type = \"smart\";\r\namzn_assoc_marketplace = \"amazon\";\r\namzn_assoc_region = \"US\";\r\namzn_assoc_default_search_phrase = \"crypto\";\r\namzn_assoc_default_category = \"All\";\r\namzn_assoc_search_bar = \"false\";\r\namzn_assoc_title = \"\";\r\namzn_assoc_rows =\"1\";\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"\/\/z-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/onejs?MarketPlace=US\"><\/script>\n<p>Elon Musk&#8217;s latest salvo in his war against crypto spam bots on Twitter appears to have made a real impact, with the crypto community reporting a vast reduction in the number of bots responding to their posts.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In a Dec. 11 post, the Twitter CEO hinted that \u201cbots are in for a surprise tomorrow\u201d and later explained that they&#8217;ve found a small number of people behind a large number of bot\/troll accounts and the platform will be shutting down IP addresses of \u201cknown bad actors.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The bots are in for a surprise tomorrow<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 11, 2022<\/p>\n<p>He then followed up by explaining that while scammers might try other methods to circumvent the IP address block, Twitter will be \u201cshutting them down as soon as they show up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Shibetoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonym of Billy Markus, co-creator of meme coin Dogecoin (DOGE), told Musk in a Dec. 11 post, \u201cI made a test post and instead of seeing 50 bot replies I only saw one much progress, very hype.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Other users also went to test Musk\u2019s latest changes. PlanB, a Bitcoin (BTC) analyst and investor, posted a chart to see how many bots would reply. At the time of writing, no responses from bots had shown up in the comments.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Just testing if the bots are really gone! pic.twitter.com\/2v7BU3xMfu<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 PlanB (@100trillionUSD) December 11, 2022<\/p>\n<p>Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin also noted that while \u201cTwitter *seems* to be marginally better to use lately,\u201d he couldn\u2019t tell if there had been a reduction in bots due to Musk. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo idea how to separate apart stuff Elon did vs crypto-winter vs my brain imagining changes that aren&#8217;t actually there,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n<p>Some have reported that the bot responses still show up on posts, but are very quickly removed by the platform.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Related: <\/em><\/strong><strong><em>\u2018Twitter will do lots of dumb things\u2019 in the coming months: Elon Musk<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Twitter spam and scam bots have been a plague on the platform and were seen by Musk as one of his top priorities for Twitter after taking the helm in October. <\/p>\n<p>In his latest post, Musk also hinted that the platform will be aiming to take legal action against scammers on Twitter in the future, though didn\u2019t offer any additional details. <\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">They will try other methods, but we\u2019re shutting them down as soon as they show up.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter will also be moving to prosecute scammers anywhere on Earth.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 11, 2022<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTwitter will also be moving to prosecute scammers anywhere on Earth,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\namzn_assoc_placement = \"adunit0\";\r\namzn_assoc_tracking_id = \"totafreearti-20\";\r\namzn_assoc_ad_mode = \"search\";\r\namzn_assoc_ad_type = \"smart\";\r\namzn_assoc_marketplace = \"amazon\";\r\namzn_assoc_region = \"US\";\r\namzn_assoc_default_search_phrase = \"bitcoin\";\r\namzn_assoc_default_category = \"All\";\r\namzn_assoc_search_bar = \"false\";\r\namzn_assoc_title = \"\";\r\namzn_assoc_rows =\"1\";\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"\/\/z-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/onejs?MarketPlace=US\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/crypto-spam-bots-go-silent-while-musk-promises-to-prosecute-scammers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk&#8217;s latest salvo in his war against crypto spam bots on Twitter appears to have made a real impact, with the crypto community reporting a vast reduction in the number of bots responding to their posts.\u00a0 In a Dec. 11 post, the Twitter CEO hinted that \u201cbots are in for a surprise tomorrow\u201d and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9115,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bitcoin-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cryptoheretostay.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cryptoheretostay.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cryptoheretostay.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cryptoheretostay.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cryptoheretostay.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9114"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cryptoheretostay.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9116,"href":"https:\/\/cryptoheretostay.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9114\/revisions\/9116"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cryptoheretostay.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cryptoheretostay.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cryptoheretostay.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cryptoheretostay.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}