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I hadn't used my twitter account in months and just this morning got notification that lucille166 was following me. Is lucille166 just another of my enamored f
by dwwatk01 18y ago
I hadn't used my twitter account in months and just this morning got notification that lucille166 was following me. Is lucille166 just another of my enamored female fans, you ask. Nope, a porn bot. I wonder how much of the increase can be attributed to the influx of spam/porn bots to this previously (I'm assuming) pristine online landscape.
- webwright 18y agoThat growth references traffic, I believe. But by many other accounts they are growing rapidly. I don't think spam/porn is a HUGE problem yet, tho I've seen more following me (@webwright) lately. I've also heard that their API traffic is 20-30x their web traffic, so when you see their web graphs, that's worth pondering.
- axod 18y agoThe problem IMHO will be the fact that it's reasonably easy to make money from their web traffic. Making money from API traffic seems downright impossible to me.