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Yoel Roth
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14 de abr |
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Flights are my preferred time to catch up terrible movies, but Crimes of Grindelwald is borderline unwatchable. Not sure I can handle another hour of this. pic.twitter.com/VtBQJHHOQd
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Yoel Roth
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13 de abr |
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Tonight I went down a weird Instagram rabbit hole starting with a really cute corgi and ending with a huge amount of said corgi’s owner’s private information casually exposed in photos from 8 years ago. I feel like this has to be common, and also ripe for exploitation.
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Yoel Roth
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13 de abr |
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Lovely meal at @GloversAlley tonight, closing out a great visit to @TwitterDublin this week. pic.twitter.com/UmMGIijN1L
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Yoel Roth
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13 de abr |
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@booksbourbon I met some folks based out of Airbnb Portland this week and was like, “Holy shit! Someone I went to high school with works there! Do you know Meg????! We did debate club together.”
Them: “Yeah, that makes sense.”
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Yoel Roth
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13 de abr |
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I was enjoying A History of the Future in 100 Objects, and then I got to the ethics chapter. Now I’m REALLY enjoying it. amazon.com/History-Future… pic.twitter.com/rjrir0JYRH
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Yoel Roth
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9 de abr |
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We’re staying vigilant about any attempt to manipulate conversations about elections — both domestic and foreign in nature.
For more on our work to protect the Indian elections, check out our blog post and follow the latest over at @TwitterIndia. blog.twitter.com/en_in/topics/e…
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Yoel Roth
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9 de abr |
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Our proactive enforcements are content agnostic. We focus on behaviors, not the content being shared. Malicious automation — regardless of the intent behind it — is a violation of our rules. For more, see here: blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/c…
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Yoel Roth
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9 de abr |
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More than a month before this report was published, we took action on many of these accounts proactively, using technology and tooling that has been significantly expanded in recent years. Building and improving this multi-pronged approach is my team’s top priority.
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Yoel Roth
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9 de abr |
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Important new research out from @DFRLab on the domestic use of malicious automation to manipulate the public conversation ahead of #LokSabhaElections2019. Sharing a few quick thoughts. twitter.com/DFRLab/status/…
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Yoel Roth
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8 de abr |
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Improving the health of Twitter is our top priority, and teams across the company are always working to refine these limits based on what we learn about spammer behavior and as malicious tactics evolve.
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Yoel Roth
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8 de abr |
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Every choice we make about our rules, limits, and spam-fighting systems has to work for hundreds of millions of people around the world, many of whom use Twitter in very different ways.
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Yoel Roth
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8 de abr |
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99.87% of Twitter users are totally unaffected by this lower rate limit. Most people don’t need or want to follow that many accounts.
But some legitimate accounts, like businesses providing customer service by DM, actually do need it, and we want to avoid burdening them.
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Yoel Roth
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8 de abr |
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We found that nearly half of all accounts who made more than 400 follows per day were churning. That amounted to more than 20 million follows each day, and a high rate of blocks and spam reports — a clear signal that inorganic follows are super annoying.
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Yoel Roth
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8 de abr |
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Certain types of inorganic follow behavior, like follow churning (repeatedly following and unfollowing the same account in the hopes of growing your followers), are prohibited in the Twitter Rules. So we looked for thresholds of follows per day from the accounts that did this.
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Yoel Roth
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8 de abr |
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So, why 400 per day, and not 100? Or 58? Or 17? In short, we found that 400 is a reasonable limit that allows people to follow the accounts they’re interested in each day while stopping the most spam.
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Yoel Roth
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8 de abr |
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First things first: You can’t stop spam, bots, or other types of manipulation with rate limits alone. However, rate limits *do* make each spam account less effective, slower, and more expensive to operate.
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Yoel Roth
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8 de abr |
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Today, we lowered the limit on the number of accounts you can follow per day from 1000 to 400. Some people are wondering why we picked 400. Well, I’m glad you asked. Nerdy thread on rate limits and anti-spam technology 👇... twitter.com/TwitterSafety/…
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Yoel Roth
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8 de abr |
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We’re taking a data-driven, iterative approach to refining our rate limits. Proud of the hard work that went into what seems like a deceptively simple change. twitter.com/TwitterSafety/…
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Yoel Roth
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8 de abr |
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Had a great time talking platform manipulation, election integrity, and what we're doing to protect conversations on Twitter with Destin. twitter.com/smartereveryda…
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Yoel Roth
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6 de abr |
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Well this is horrifying. nytimes.com/2019/04/06/hea…
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